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Authorizes health carriers to offer catastrophic plans on the individual market, and to offer such plans to all individuals. The measure provides that a catastrophic plan is deemed to provide an essential health benefits package and to meet certain requirements of federal law. A catastrophic plan is a high-deductible health care plan that provides essential health benefits and coverage for at least three primary care visits per policy year. Under the federal Affordable Care Act, catastrophic plans satisfy requirements that health benefit plans provide minimum levels of coverage only if they cover individuals who are under 30 years of age or who qualify for a hardship exemption or affordability exemption. The measure requires the Commissioner of Insurance to apply to the federal government for a state innovation waiver allowing the implementation of the provision. The provision will become effective 30 days after the Commissioner notifies certain persons that the request has been approved.
Provides that a permitted manufacturer, wholesale distributor, warehouser, nonresident warehouser, third-party logistics provider, or nonresident third-party logistics provider or registered nonresident manufacturer or nonresident wholesale distributor (the provider) may deliver a Schedule VI prescription device directly to an ultimate user or consumer, provided that the provider is delivering on behalf of and has entered into an agreement with (i) a medical equipment supplier that has received a valid order from a prescriber authorizing the dispensing of the Schedule VI prescription device or (ii) a medical director of a home health agency, nursing home, assisted living facility, or hospice who has requested the distribution of the Schedule VI prescription device to be administered by persons authorized to administer such devices. The bill directs the Board of Pharmacy to promulgate regulations to implement the provisions of the measure within 280 days. This bill is identical to