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New Jersey Statutes, Title: 17B, INSURANCE
Chapter 26: Filing of forms
Section: 17B:26-2.1dd: Individual health insurance policy to provide coverage for oral anticancer medications.
4. a. An individual health insurance policy that provides hospital and medical expense benefits and is delivered, issued, executed, or renewed in this State pursuant to N.J.S.17B:26-1 et seq., or approved for issuance or renewal in this State by the Commissioner of Banking and Insurance, on or after the effective date of this act, shall provide coverage for expenses for prescribed, orally administered anticancer medications used to kill or slow the growth of cancerous cells on a basis no less favorable than the policy provides for intravenously administered or injected anticancer medications.
b. Pursuant to subsection a. of this section, coverage for expenses for prescribed, orally administered anticancer medications used to kill or slow the growth of cancerous cells shall not be subject to any prior authorization, dollar limit, copayment, deductible or coinsurance provision that does not apply to intravenously administered or injected anticancer medications.
c. An individual health insurance policy shall not achieve compliance with the provisions of this section by imposing an increase in patient cost sharing, including any copayment, deductible or coinsurance, for anticancer medications, whether intravenously administered or injected or orally administered, that are covered under the policy as of the effective date of this act.
d. This section shall apply to those policies in which the insurer has reserved the right to change the premium.
L.2011, c.188, s.4.
This section added to the Rutgers Database: 2013-06-10 16:36:30.
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