Health Insurance - Lyme Disease and Related Tick-Borne Illnesses - Long-Term Antibiotic Treatment
Hearing 3/13 at 1:30 p.m. (House)
Summary
The bill mandates that insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations provide coverage for the entire duration of prescribed long‑term antibiotic therapy for Lyme disease and other tick‑borne illnesses, without imposing quantitative limits. Coverage must be provided when a licensed physician orders the treatment for therapeutic purposes, and insurers cannot deny it as experimental. The law applies to policies issued or renewed on or after January 1, 2027.
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- Hearing 3/13 at 3:00 p.m.
- Hearing 3/13 at 1:30 p.m.
- Hearing 3/13 at 1:00 p.m.
- First Reading Health
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- Adams · sponsor
- Anderson
- Arentz
- Baker
- Beauchamp
- Buckel
- Ciliberti
- Fair
- Hornberger
- Howard
- Hutchinson
- Jacobs
- McComas
- Miller
- Reilly
- Rose
- T. Morgan
- Wivell
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