86R6879 PMO-F
 
  By: Collier H.B. No. 2682
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to health benefit coverage for certain fertility
  preservation services under certain health benefit plans.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Chapter 1366, Insurance Code, is amended by
  adding Subchapter C to read as follows:
  SUBCHAPTER C. COVERAGE FOR CERTAIN FERTILITY PRESERVATION SERVICES
         Sec. 1366.101.  APPLICABILITY OF SUBCHAPTER. (a) This
  subchapter applies only to a health benefit plan that provides
  benefits for medical or surgical expenses incurred as a result of a
  health condition, accident, or sickness, including an individual,
  group, blanket, or franchise insurance policy or insurance
  agreement, a group hospital service contract, or an individual or
  group evidence of coverage or similar coverage document that is
  issued in this state by:
               (1)  an insurance company;
               (2)  a group hospital service corporation operating
  under Chapter 842;
               (3)  a health maintenance organization operating under
  Chapter 843;
               (4)  an approved nonprofit health corporation that
  holds a certificate of authority under Chapter 844;
               (5)  a multiple employer welfare arrangement that holds
  a certificate of authority under Chapter 846;
               (6)  a stipulated premium company operating under
  Chapter 884;
               (7)  a fraternal benefit society operating under
  Chapter 885;
               (8)  a Lloyd's plan operating under Chapter 941; or
               (9)  an exchange operating under Chapter 942.
         (b)  Notwithstanding any other law, this subchapter applies
  to:
               (1)  a small employer health benefit plan subject to
  Chapter 1501, including coverage provided through a health group
  cooperative under Subchapter B of that chapter;
               (2)  a standard health benefit plan issued under
  Chapter 1507;
               (3)  a basic coverage plan under Chapter 1551;
               (4)  a basic plan under Chapter 1575;
               (5)  a primary care coverage plan under Chapter 1579;
               (6)  a plan providing basic coverage under Chapter
  1601;
               (7)  health benefits provided by or through a church
  benefits board under Subchapter I, Chapter 22, Business
  Organizations Code;
               (8)  group health coverage made available by a school
  district in accordance with Section 22.004, Education Code;
               (9)  the state Medicaid program, including the Medicaid
  managed care program operated under Chapter 533, Government Code;
               (10)  the child health plan program under Chapter 62,
  Health and Safety Code;
               (11)  a regional or local health care program operated
  under Section 75.104, Health and Safety Code;
               (12)  a self-funded health benefit plan sponsored by a
  professional employer organization under Chapter 91, Labor Code;
               (13)  county employee group health benefits provided
  under Chapter 157, Local Government Code; and
               (14)  health and accident coverage provided by a risk
  pool created under Chapter 172, Local Government Code.
         Sec. 1366.102.  EXCEPTIONS. This subchapter does not apply
  to:
               (1)  a plan that provides coverage:
                     (A)  for wages or payments in lieu of wages for a
  period during which an employee is absent from work because of
  sickness or injury;
                     (B)  as a supplement to a liability insurance
  policy;
                     (C)  for credit insurance;
                     (D)  only for dental or vision care;
                     (E)  only for hospital expenses; or
                     (F)  only for indemnity for hospital confinement;
               (2)  a Medicare supplemental policy as defined by
  Section 1882(g)(1), Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. Section
  1395ss(g)(1));
               (3)  a workers' compensation insurance policy;
               (4)  medical payment insurance coverage provided under
  a motor vehicle insurance policy; or
               (5)  a long-term care policy, including a nursing home
  fixed indemnity policy, unless the commissioner determines that the
  policy provides benefit coverage so comprehensive that the policy
  is a health benefit plan as described by Section 1366.001.
         Sec. 1366.103.  REQUIRED COVERAGE. (a)  Subject to
  Subsection (b), a health benefit plan must provide coverage for
  fertility preservation services to a covered person who will
  receive a medically necessary treatment, including surgery,
  chemotherapy, and radiation, that the American Society of Clinical
  Oncology or the American Society for Reproductive Medicine has
  established may directly or indirectly cause impaired fertility.
         (b)  The fertility preservation services described by
  Subsection (a) must be standard procedures to preserve fertility
  consistent with established medical practices or professional
  guidelines published by the American Society of Clinical Oncology
  or the American Society for Reproductive Medicine.
         SECTION 2.  This Act applies only to a health benefit plan
  that is delivered, issued for delivery, or renewed on or after
  January 1, 2020.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.