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304.17A-148 Coverage for diabetes.
(1) All health benefit plans issued or renewed on or after July 15, 1998, shall provide
coverage for equipment, supplies, outpatient self-management training and <br>education, including medical nutrition therapy, and all medications necessary for the <br>treatment of insulin-dependent diabetes, insulin-using diabetes, gestational diabetes, <br>and noninsulin-using diabetes if prescribed by a health care provider legally <br>authorized to prescribe the items.
(2) Diabetes outpatient self-management training and education shall be provided by a
certified, registered, or licensed health care professional with expertise in diabetes, <br>as deemed necessary by a health care provider.
(3) (a) The benefits provided in this section shall be subject to the same annual
deductibles or coinsurance established for all other covered benefits within a <br>given health benefit plan.
(b) Private third-party payors may not reduce or eliminate coverage due to the
requirements of this section.
Effective: July 15, 1998 <br>History: Created 1998 Ky. Acts ch. 476, sec. 1, effective July 15, 1998.
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