Act No. 139

Public Acts of 2019

Approved by the Governor

December 4, 2019

Filed with the Secretary of State

December 5, 2019

EFFECTIVE DATE: December 5, 2019

 

 

 

 

 

 

state of michigan

100th Legislature

Regular session of 2019

Introduced by Reps. Calley, Markkanen, Sabo, Brixie, Kuppa and Yancey

ENROLLED HOUSE BILL No. 4451

AN ACT to amend 1956 PA 218, entitled An act to revise, consolidate, and classify the laws relating to the insurance and surety business; to regulate the incorporation or formation of domestic insurance and surety companies and associations and the admission of foreign and alien companies and associations; to provide their rights, powers, and immunities and to prescribe the conditions on which companies and associations organized, existing, or authorized under this act may exercise their powers; to provide the rights, powers, and immunities and to prescribe the conditions on which other persons, firms, corporations, associations, risk retention groups, and purchasing groups engaged in an insurance or surety business may exercise their powers; to provide for the imposition of a privilege fee on domestic insurance companies and associations and the state accident fund; to provide for the imposition of a tax on the business of foreign and alien companies and associations; to provide for the imposition of a tax on risk retention groups and purchasing groups; to provide for the imposition of a tax on the business of surplus line agents; to provide for the imposition of regulatory fees on certain insurers; to provide for assessment fees on certain health maintenance organizations; to modify tort liability arising out of certain accidents; to provide for limited actions with respect to that modified tort liability and to prescribe certain procedures for maintaining those actions; to require security for losses arising out of certain accidents; to provide for the continued availability and affordability of automobile insurance and homeowners insurance in this state and to facilitate the purchase of that insurance by all residents of this state at fair and reasonable rates; to provide for certain reporting with respect to insurance and with respect to certain claims against uninsured or self-insured persons; to prescribe duties for certain state departments and officers with respect to that reporting; to provide for certain assessments; to establish and continue certain state insurance funds; to modify and clarify the status, rights, powers, duties, and operations of the nonprofit malpractice insurance fund; to provide for the departmental supervision and regulation of the insurance and surety business within this state; to provide for regulation over workers compensation self-insurers; to provide for the conservation, rehabilitation, or liquidation of unsound or insolvent insurers; to provide for the protection of policyholders, claimants, and creditors of unsound or insolvent insurers; to provide for associations of insurers to protect policyholders and claimants in the event of insurer insolvencies; to prescribe educational requirements for insurance agents and solicitors; to provide for the regulation of multiple employer welfare arrangements; to create an automobile theft prevention authority to reduce the number of automobile thefts in this state; to prescribe the powers and duties of the automobile theft prevention authority; to provide certain powers and duties upon certain officials, departments, and authorities of this state; to provide for an appropriation; to repeal acts and parts of acts; and to provide penalties for the violation of this act, (MCL 500.100 to 500.8302) by adding section 3406u.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

Sec. 3406u. (1) An insurer that delivers, issues for delivery, or renews in this state a health insurance policy that provides coverage for prescription eyedrops shall not deny coverage for a refill of the prescription if all of the following apply:

(a) For a 30-day supply, the amount of time has passed within which the insured should have used 75% of the dosage units of the drug according to the prescribers instructions, or 23 days have passed after either of the following:

(i) The original date the prescription was distributed to the insured.

(ii) The date the most recent refill was distributed to the insured.

(b) The prescriber indicates on the original prescription that additional quantities are needed.

(c) The prescription eye drops prescribed by the prescriber are covered under the health insurance policy.

(2) As used in this section, prescriber means that term as defined in section 17708 of the public health code, 1978 PA 368, MCL 333.17708.

 

Enacting section 1. This amendatory act applies to health insurance policies delivered, executed, issued, amended, adjusted, or renewed in this state, or outside of this state if covering residents of this state, beginning 90 days after the date this amendatory act is enacted into law.

This act is ordered to take immediate effect.

Clerk of the House of Representatives

Secretary of the Senate

Approved___________________________________________

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Governor