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By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel Only genetic information that is a medical diagnosis would be allowed to be used by life insurers under the Senate genetic testing bill (SB 1564) that sailed through its last Senate committee on February 20, 2020. The bill passed with a vote of 16-1. The bill will now be…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel SB 744 expands the current law on direct primary care agreements by allowing podiatrists to enter into these agreements with individuals. Current law only allows allopathic physicians, osteopathic physicians, chiropractic physicians, nurses, or dentists to use direct primary care agreements. The bill also changes other regulations for podiatrists,…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel The House moved their PBM regulation bill (HB 7045) to the floor on February 18, 2020 when it passed its last committee, House Health and Human Services. A strike all amendment and two amendments to the strike all were adopted to the bill. The strike all amendment:…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel SB 1188 and HB 1409 create a public records exemption for certain sensitive business information held by the Department of Financial Services (DFS) which current law already protects from public records disclosure requirements if held by the Office of Insurance Regulation (OIR). Disclosure of the exempted information, which includes…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel On February 18, 2020, the Senate Health Policy Committee adopted an amendment to their pharmacist test and treat bill (SB 714) to limit it to flu only. The House bill (HB 389) is different and allows pharmacists to test and treat for flu and strep. The House bill was…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel The House organ transplant bill, HB 1187, no longer contains a prohibition on health insurance excluding coverage for organ donors as the provision was removed in its first committee. However, the Senate organ donor bill (SB 1516) still contains the prohibition. The bill differences will have to be worked…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel HB 1279 tweaks the health insurance shared savings program. It passed its last committee on February 18, 2020 without amendment. It will now be heard on the House floor when scheduled by the Rules Committee. The shared savings program was created in 2019 as a voluntary program for…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel The Senate asbestos trust claims bill cleared its second committee on February 18, 2020 with a technical amendment to remove the definition of “trust governance document” because it is not used anywhere in the bill. The Senate bill was not controversial in committee and has one committee left. Veterans…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel The House and Senate passed bills changing the appellate jurisdiction of county courts during committee meetings on February 18, 2020. The House Appropriations Committee approved HB 7059 with amendments providing an appropriation and clarifying public defenders and the office of criminal conflict and civil regional counsels will be…
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