2016 Oklahoma Statutes
Title 36. Insurance
§36-6060.9a. Anti-cancer medication coverage.

A. 1. Any health benefit plan that provides coverage and benefits for cancer treatment shall provide coverage of prescribed orally administered anticancer medications on a basis no less favorable than intravenously administered or injected cancer medications.

2. Coverage of orally administered anticancer medication shall not be subject to any prior authorization, dollar limit, copayment, deductible, or other out-of-pocket expense that does not apply to intravenously administered or injected cancer medication, regardless of formulation or benefit category determination by the company administering the health benefit plan.

3. A health benefit plan shall not reclassify or increase any type of cost-sharing to the covered person for anticancer medications in order to achieve compliance with this section. Any change in health insurance coverage that otherwise increases an out-of-pocket expense to anticancer medications shall also be applied to the majority of comparable medical or pharmaceutical benefits covered by the health benefit plan.

4. A health benefit plan that limits the total amount paid by a covered person through all cost-sharing requirements to no more than One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) per filled prescription for any orally administered anticancer medication shall be considered in compliance with this section. For purposes of this paragraph, "cost-sharing requirements" shall include copayments, coinsurance, deductibles, and any other amounts paid by the covered person for that prescription.

B. As used in this section:

1. "Anticancer medications" means medications used to kill or slow the growth of cancer cells;

2. "Covered person" means a policyholder, subscriber, enrollee, or other individual enrolled in or insured by a health benefit plan for health insurance coverage; and

3. "Health benefit plan" means any plan or arrangement as defined in subsection C of Section 6060.4 of Title 36 of the Oklahoma Statutes.

Added by Laws 2013, c. 115, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2013.