Bill Text: MI SB0027 | 2023-2024 | 102nd Legislature | Chaptered

Michigan Senate Bill 27

Bill Title: Insurance: health insurers; equitable coverage for behavioral health and substance use disorder treatment; provide for. Amends 1956 PA 218 (MCL 500.100 - 500.8302) by adding sec. 3406hh.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)

Status: (Passed) 2024-05-22 - Assigned Pa 0041'24 [SB0027 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2023-SB0027-Chaptered.html

Act No. 41

Public Acts of 2024

Approved by the Governor

May 21, 2024

Filed with the Secretary of State

May 21, 2024

EFFECTIVE DATE: Sine Die

(91st day after final adjournment of the 2024 Regular Session)

state of michigan

102nd Legislature

Regular session of 2024

Introduced by Senators Anthony, Wojno, Geiss, Cavanagh, Singh and Chang

ENROLLED SENATE BILL No. 27

AN ACT to amend 1956 PA 218, entitled �An act to revise, consolidate, and classify the laws relating to the insurance and surety business; to regulate the incorporation or formation of domestic insurance and surety companies and associations and the admission of foreign and alien companies and associations; to provide their rights, powers, and immunities and to prescribe the conditions on which companies and associations organized, existing, or authorized under this act may exercise their powers; to provide the rights, powers, and immunities and to prescribe the conditions on which other persons, firms, corporations, associations, risk retention groups, and purchasing groups engaged in an insurance or surety business may exercise their powers; to provide for the imposition of a privilege fee on domestic insurance companies and associations and the state accident fund; to provide for the imposition of a tax on the business of foreign and alien companies and associations; to provide for the imposition of a tax on risk retention groups and purchasing groups; to provide for the imposition of a tax on the business of surplus line agents; to provide for the imposition of regulatory fees on certain insurers; to provide for assessment fees on certain health maintenance organizations; to modify tort liability arising out of certain accidents; to provide for limited actions with respect to that modified tort liability and to prescribe certain procedures for maintaining those actions; to require security for losses arising out of certain accidents; to provide for the continued availability and affordability of automobile insurance and homeowners insurance in this state and to facilitate the purchase of that insurance by all residents of this state at fair and reasonable rates; to provide for certain reporting with respect to insurance and with respect to certain claims against uninsured or self-insured persons; to prescribe duties for certain state departments and officers with respect to that reporting; to provide for certain assessments; to establish and continue certain state insurance funds; to modify and clarify the status, rights, powers, duties, and operations of the nonprofit malpractice insurance fund; to provide for the departmental supervision and regulation of the insurance and surety business within this state; to provide for regulation over worker�s compensation self-insurers; to provide for the conservation, rehabilitation, or liquidation of unsound or insolvent insurers; to provide for the protection of policyholders, claimants, and creditors of unsound or insolvent insurers; to provide for associations of insurers to protect policyholders and claimants in the event of insurer insolvencies; to prescribe educational requirements for insurance agents and solicitors; to provide for the regulation of multiple employer welfare arrangements; to create an automobile theft prevention authority to reduce the number of automobile thefts in this state; to prescribe the powers and duties of the automobile theft prevention authority; to provide certain powers and duties upon certain officials, departments, and authorities of this state; to provide for an appropriation; to repeal acts and parts of acts; and to provide penalties for the violation of this act,� (MCL 500.100 to 500.8302) by adding section 3406hh.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

Sec. 3406hh. (1) An insurer that delivers, issues for delivery, or renews in this state a health insurance policy shall provide coverage for mental health and substance use disorder services. All of the following apply to the coverage required under this subsection:

(a) Any financial requirements or quantitative treatment limitations applicable to mental health and substance use disorder benefits in any classification must be no more restrictive than the predominant financial requirements or quantitative treatment limitations applied to substantially all benefits provided for medical/surgical benefits in the same classification and there must be no separate cumulative financial requirements that are applicable only with respect to mental health or substance use disorder benefits.

(b) Except as otherwise provided in subsections (3) and (4), nonquantitative treatment limitations may be imposed on mental health or substance use disorder benefits in any classification only if the processes, strategies, evidentiary standards, or other factors used in developing and applying the nonquantitative treatment limitation to mental health or substance use disorder benefits in the same classification are comparable to, and are applied no more stringently than, the processes, strategies, evidentiary standards, or other factors used in developing and applying the limitation with respect to medical/surgical benefits in the same classification.

(i) Office visits, such as physician visits.

(ii) Any other outpatient benefit, such as outpatient surgery, facility charges for day treatment centers, laboratory charges, and other medical items.

(2) Benefits provided under subsection (1) must meet all applicable federal parity requirements, including, but not limited to, 42 USC 300gg-26 and the regulations promulgated under that section. An insurer that meets the federal parity requirements described in this subsection is considered to meet the requirements under subsection (1) if the federal parity requirements are not less stringent than the requirements under subsection (1).

(3) If a health insurance policy provides benefits through multiple tiers of in-network providers, including an in-network tier of preferred providers with more generous cost-sharing to participants than a separate in-network tier of participating providers, the health plan may divide its benefits provided on an in-network basis into subclassifications that reflect network tiers, if the tiering is based on reasonable factors determined in accordance with the requirements for nonquantitative treatment limits and without regard to whether a provider provides services with respect to medical and surgical benefits or mental health or substance use disorder benefits. After the subclassifications are established, the health insurance policy must not impose any financial requirement or treatment limitation on mental health or substance use disorder benefits in any subclassification that is more restrictive than the predominant financial requirement or treatment limit that applies to substantially all medical and surgical benefits in the subclassification.

(4) If a health insurance policy applies different levels of financial requirements to different tiers of prescription drug benefits that are based on reasonable factors determined in accordance with the requirements for nonquantitative treatment limits and without regard to whether a drug is generally prescribed with respect to medical and surgical benefits or with respect to mental health or substance use disorder benefits, the health plan satisfies the parity requirements of this section with respect to prescription drug benefits. As used in this subsection, �reasonable factors� include cost, efficacy, generic versus brand name drugs, and mail order versus pharmacy pick-up.

(5) As used in this section:

(a) �Classification� means any 1 of the following:

(i) Inpatient in-network.

(ii) Inpatient out-of-network.

(iii) Outpatient in-network.

(iv) Outpatient out-of-network.

(v) Emergency services.

(vi) Prescription drugs.

(b) �Financial requirements� means deductibles, copayments, coinsurance, and out-of-pocket maximums. Financial requirements do not include aggregate lifetime or annual dollar limits.

(c) �Nonquantitative treatment limitations� means those limitations that are not expressed numerically but otherwise limit the scope or duration of benefits for treatment under a health insurance policy or coverage and includes, but is not limited to, the limitations described under 45 CFR 146.136. Nonquantitative treatment limitations do not include a complete exclusion of all benefits for a certain condition or disorder.

(d) �Predominant� means that term as defined in 45 CFR 146.136.

(e) �Quantitative treatment limitations� includes limitations that are expressed numerically, such as limits on benefits based on the frequency of treatment, number of visits, days of coverage, days in a waiting period, or other similar limits on the scope or duration of treatment, and includes, but is not limited to, the limitations described under 45 CFR 146.136. Quantitative treatment limitations do not include a complete exclusion of all benefits for a certain condition or disorder.

(f) �Substantially all� means that term as defined in 45 CFR 146.136.

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