Enrolled Bill Summary

Senate Bill 163 amends the Insurance Code to require certain health benefit plans that cover the treatment of diabetes to also provide coverage for specified diabetes equipment, supplies, and certain self-management supplies that are subsequently approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration if a health care practitioner determines that the supplies are medically necessary. A plan is authorized to require a beneficiary to pay a deductible, copayment, or coinsurance premium that does not exceed similar payments for analogous medical conditions. The act only applies to a health benefit plan issued or renewed on or after January 1, 1998.