Enrolled Bill Summary

            House Bill 2382 amends the Insurance Code to prohibit a health benefit plan that provides benefits for prescription drugs or devices from excluding or limiting benefits to enrollees for a prescription contraceptive drug or device or an outpatient contraceptive service, or from imposing a cost-sharing provision or waiting period for prescription contraceptive drugs or devices or outpatient contraceptive services unless the amount of the cost-sharing provision or length of the waiting period does not exceed that provision or period applicable to other services or benefits under the plan. The bill prohibits the issuer of a health benefit plan from denying an applicant's eligibility or an enrollee's continued eligibility based on use or potential use of a contraceptive drug, device, or outpatient service; from providing monetary incentive to induce the applicant or enrollee to accept coverage that does not satisfy these requirements; and from penalizing a health care professional because the professional prescribes a contraceptive drug or device or provides an outpatient contraceptive service. House Bill 2382 applies to a health benefit plan delivered, issued, or renewed on or after January 1, 2002.