Bill Text: TX HB4798 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to governmental health benefit plan coverage for opioid antagonists and associated devices.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-22 - Referred to Insurance [HB4798 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB4798-Introduced.html
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| By: Talarico | H.B. No. 4798 | |
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| relating to governmental health benefit plan coverage for opioid | ||
| antagonists and associated devices. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subtitle E, Title 8, Insurance Code, is amended | ||
| by adding Chapter 1372 to read as follows: | ||
| CHAPTER 1372. COVERAGE FOR OPIOID ANTAGONISTS | ||
| Sec. 1372.001. DEFINITION. In this chapter, "opioid | ||
| antagonist" means any drug that binds to opioid receptors and | ||
| blocks or otherwise inhibits the effects of opioids acting on those | ||
| receptors. | ||
| Sec. 1372.002. APPLICABILITY OF CHAPTER. Notwithstanding | ||
| any other law, this chapter applies only to: | ||
| (1) a basic coverage plan under Chapter 1551; | ||
| (2) a basic plan under Chapter 1575; | ||
| (3) a primary care coverage plan under Chapter 1579; | ||
| (4) a plan providing basic coverage under Chapter | ||
| 1601; | ||
| (5) the state Medicaid program, including the Medicaid | ||
| managed care program operated under Chapter 533, Government Code; | ||
| and | ||
| (6) the child health plan program under Chapter 62, | ||
| Health and Safety Code. | ||
| Sec. 1372.003. REQUIRED COVERAGE FOR OPIOID ANTAGONISTS. A | ||
| health benefit plan must provide coverage for an opioid antagonist | ||
| and an associated device used in the administration of an opioid | ||
| antagonist. | ||
| SECTION 2. If before implementing any provision of this Act | ||
| a state agency determines that a waiver or authorization from a | ||
| federal agency is necessary for implementation of that provision, | ||
| the agency affected by the provision shall request the waiver or | ||
| authorization and may delay implementing that provision until the | ||
| waiver or authorization is granted. | ||
| SECTION 3. 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, 2024. | ||
| SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
