Kidney Screening Mandatory Preventive Coverage

The bill adds kidney function screening services as preventive health-care services for which insurance policies or contracts in the state must provide total-cost coverage. Coverage for kidney function screening services will be implemented for all large employer health benefit policies or contracts issued or renewed in this state after January 1, 2027, and all individual and small group health benefit plans issued or renewed in this state on or after January 1, 2028, as long as the state is not required to defray the cost of the coverage of the kidney function screening services.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.)