Kansas 2025-2026 Regular Session

Kansas Senate Bill SB150

Introduced
2/3/25  

Caption

Prohibiting the denial of coverage for the refilling of prescription topical eye medication.

Impact

If enacted, SB150 will amend existing Kansas statutes related to health insurance, specifically K.S.A. 40-2,103 and K.S.A. 40-19c09. The bill's adoption will remove barriers to necessary medication refills, thus ensuring that patients with chronic eye conditions can maintain treatment without interruption. This change aims to alleviate potential health complications associated with missed doses or delays in medication refills, thereby improving overall patient health outcomes.

Summary

Senate Bill 150 aims to enhance health insurance coverage for patients requiring prescription topical eye medication. The bill mandates that health insurance policies provide coverage for refilling such medications, particularly when they are needed to treat chronic eye conditions. Importantly, the refill must be requested by the insured before the last day of the prescribed dosage period, and it must occur after the patient has utilized at least 75% of the medication. The prescribing physician or optometrist must have indicated on the original prescription that refills are permissible.

Contention

There may be concerns from some stakeholders regarding the financial implications of this mandate for insurance providers. Critics could argue that requiring coverage for early refills may lead to increased costs for insurance companies, which may subsequently raise premiums for all policyholders. Supporters, however, argue that this legislation is a necessary step to ensure that patients receive the medications they need in a timely manner, thereby preventing more significant health issues down the line.

Companion Bills

No companion bills found.

Previously Filed As

KS HB2002

Expanding medical assistance eligibility and enacting the cutting healthcare costs for all Kansans act.

KS SB8

Exempting the sale of firearms, firearms accessories, ammunition, firearm safes and firearm safety devices from the retatilers' sales tax.

KS SB6

Providing a sales tax exemption for sales of electricity to residential premises by municipally owned or operated utilities.

KS SB1

Modifying income tax rates for individuals, exempting all social security benefits from Kansas income tax, increasing the Kansas standard deduction and the Kansas personal exemption, increasing the income tax credit amount for household and dependent care expenses, decreasing the privilege tax normal tax, excluding internal revenue code section 1031 exchange transactions as indicators of fair market value for property tax valuation purposes, increasing the extent of property tax exemption for residential property from the statewide school levy, providing for certain transfers to the state school district finance fund and abolishing the local ad valorem tax reduction fund and the county and city revenue sharing fund.

KS SB2

Eliminating the income limit to qualify for the subtraction modification exempting social security benefits, increasing the income tax credit amount for household and dependent care expenses, establishing the veterans' valor property tax relief act providing for an income tax credit or refund for eligible individuals, citing the increased property tax homestead refund claim section as the homeowners' property tax freeze program, decreasing the normal privilege tax rate, increasing the extent of property tax exemption for residential property from the statewide school levy, decreasing the rate of ad valorem tax imposed by a school district; providing for certain transfers to the state school district finance fund, reducing the state rate of tax on sales of food and food ingredients and modifying the percent credited to the state highway fund from revenue collected.

KS SB7

Authorizing federally licensed firearm dealers, in addition to county sheriffs, to receive applications for concealed carry licenses and forward such applications to the attorney general, prohibiting sheriffs from assessing any fee related to application services and allowing dealers to assess a fee related to application services not to exceed $20.

KS HB2003

Establishing the veterans' valor property tax relief act providing for an income tax credit or refund for eligible individuals, modifying the definition of household income and increasing the appraised value threshold for eligibility of seniors and disabled veterans related to increased property tax claims and citing the section as the homeowners' property tax freeze program, providing property tax exemptions for certain personal property including watercraft, marine equipment, off-road vehicles, motorized bicycles and certain trailers, excluding internal revenue code section 1031 exchange transactions as indicators of fair market value, providing for certain exclusions from the prohibition of paying taxes under protest after a valuation notice appeal and providing four prior years' values on the annual valuation notice.

KS HB2001

Authorizing the secretary of commerce to enter into agreements with major professional sports franchises to establish STAR bond projects for a major professional sports complex, providing for additional revenue sources, expanding the powers and discretion of the secretary and making other changes to the STAR bonds financing act to facilitate such projects, limiting the secretary’s authority to approve such projects to one year unless extended by the legislative coordinating council, authorizing the Kansas development finance authority to issue STAR bonds for such projects, transferring funds under certain circumstances from the state gaming revenues fund to the attracting professional sports to Kansas fund for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2025, and, if approved by the legislative coordinating council, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2026.

KS SB3

Clarifying the procedures and restrictions on accepting a nomination for an elected office.

KS HB2004

Authorizing counties to propose an earnings tax for ballot question.

Similar Bills

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