LB383 LB383
2023 2023
LEGISLATURE OF NEBRASKA
ONE HUNDRED EIGHTH LEGISLATURE
FIRST SESSION
LEGISLATIVE BILL 383
Introduced by Bostar, 29.
Read first time January 12, 2023
Committee: Banking, Commerce and Insurance
1 A BILL FOR AN ACT relating to insurance; to amend section 44-7,102,
2 Revised Statutes Cumulative Supplement, 2022; to change provisions
3 relating to coverage for screenings for colorectal cancer; and to
4 repeal the original section.
5 Be it enacted by the people of the State of Nebraska,
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1 Section 1. Section 44-7,102, Revised Statutes Cumulative Supplement,
2 2022, is amended to read:
3 44-7,102 (1) Notwithstanding section 44-3,131, (a) any individual or
4 group sickness and accident insurance policy, certificate, or subscriber
5 contract delivered, issued for delivery, or renewed in this state and any
6 hospital, medical, or surgical expense-incurred policy, except for short-
7 term major medical policies of six months or less duration and policies
8 that provide coverage for a specified disease or other limited-benefit
9 coverage, and (b) any self-funded employee benefit plan to the extent not
10 preempted by federal law shall include screening coverage for a
11 colorectal cancer examination and laboratory tests for cancer for any
12 nonsymptomatic person forty-five years of age or older covered under such
13 policy, certificate, contract, or plan. Such screening coverage shall
14 include a maximum of one screening stool-based preventative screening
15 test as approved by the United States Preventative Services Task Force
16 fecal occult blood test annually and a flexible sigmoidoscopy every five
17 years, a colonoscopy every ten years, or a barium enema every five to ten
18 years, or any combination, or the most reliable, medically recognized
19 screening test available. The screenings selected shall be as deemed
20 appropriate by a health care provider and the patient.
21 (2) On or after December 31, 2023, no policy, certificate, or
22 contract, delivered, issued for delivery, or renewed in this state, or
23 any self-funded employee benefit plan, to the extent not preempted by
24 federal law, shall impose a deductible, coinsurance, or any other cost
25 sharing requirements for screening colonoscopies, including those
26 performed as a result of a positive noncolonoscopy stool-based preventive
27 screen test as approved by the United States Preventive Services Task
28 Force. This section does not prevent application of deductible or
29 copayment provisions contained in the policy, certificate, contract, or
30 employee benefit plan or require that such coverage be extended to any
31 other procedures.
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1 Sec. 2. Original section 44-7,102, Revised Statutes Cumulative
2 Supplement, 2022, is repealed.
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