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Current as of January 01, 2025 | Updated by Findlaw Staff
(a) Except for a fraternal benefit society, a health care insurer that offers, issues for delivery, delivers, or renews in this state a health care insurance plan that provides coverage for anti-cancer medications that are injected or intravenously administered by a health care provider and patient-administered anti-cancer medications, including those orally administered or self-injected, may not require a higher copayment, deductible, or coinsurance amount for a patient-administered medication than it requires for an anti-cancer medication injected or intravenously administered by a health care provider, regardless of the formulation or benefit category determination by the policy or plan.
(b) A health care insurer may not offset the costs of compliance with (a) of this section by
(1) increasing the copayment, deductible, or coinsurance amount required for anti-cancer medications injected or intravenously administered by a health care provider that are covered under the health insurance plan; or
(2) reclassifying benefits with respect to anti-cancer medications.
(c) Nothing in this section prohibits a health care insurance plan from requiring different cost-sharing rates for in-network and out-of-network providers or pharmacies.
(d) In this section, “anti-cancer medication” means a drug or biologic used to kill cancerous cells, to slow or prevent the growth of cancerous cells, or to treat related side effects.
Cite this article: FindLaw.com - Alaska Statutes Title 21. Insurance § 21.42.430. Coverage for anti-cancer medication - last updated January 01, 2025 | https://codes.findlaw.com/ak/title-21-insurance/ak-st-sect-21-42-430/
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