Bill Text: TX HB2984 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to health benefit plan coverage for treatment of autism.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-03-18 - Referred to Insurance [HB2984 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB2984-Introduced.html
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By: Johnson of Dallas | H.B. No. 2984 |
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relating to health benefit plan coverage for treatment of autism. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 1355.015, Insurance Code, is amended by | ||
amending Subsections (a-1) and (c-1) and adding Subsection (c-2) to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(a-1) At a minimum, a health benefit plan must provide | ||
coverage for treatment of autism spectrum disorder as provided by | ||
this section to an enrollee who is diagnosed with autism spectrum | ||
disorder from the date of diagnosis, only if the diagnosis was in | ||
place prior to the enrollee's 22nd [ |
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(c-1) The health benefit plan may [ |
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enrollee to be evaluated for autism spectrum disorder more than | ||
once every 10 years [ |
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(c-2) The health benefit plan may not prohibit or place a | ||
limitation on a health care practitioner described by Subsection | ||
(b)(1) from performing an evaluation requested by the plan's | ||
issuer. | ||
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only | ||
to a health benefit plan delivered, issued for delivery, or renewed | ||
on or after January 1, 2022. A health benefit plan delivered, | ||
issued for delivery, or renewed before January 1, 2022, is governed | ||
by the law as it existed immediately before the effective date of | ||
this Act, and that law is continued in effect for that purpose. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. |