HB 420: "An Act requiring that health care insurers offer certain coverage for treatment of diabetes."
00HOUSE BILL NO. 420 01 "An Act requiring that health care insurers offer certain coverage for treatment 02 of diabetes." 03 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA: 04 * Section 1. AS 21.42 is amended by adding a new section to read: 05 Sec. 21.42.390. Coverage for treatment of diabetes. (a) A health care 06 insurer that offers in this state a health care insurance plan shall initially and at each 07 renewal offer coverage for the cost of treating diabetes, including medicine, equipment, 08 supplies, outpatient self-management training or education, and nutrition therapy. The 09 coverage required to be offered by this section shall be subject to standard policy 10 provisions applicable to other benefits, including deductible or copayment provisions. 11 Diabetes outpatient treatment and self-management training or education must be 12 provided by a health care provider with training in the treatment of diabetes. 13 (b) In this section, 14 (1) "diabetes" includes insulin-dependent diabetes, insulin-using
01 diabetes, gestational diabetes, and noninsulin using diabetes; and 02 (2) "health care provider" means a person licensed in this state to 03 provide health care services.