Iowa legislation · 91st General Assembly
Iowa HF656: A BILL FOR An Act relating to vision benefit plans, the regulation of insurers and vision benefit managers, vision care providers, and vision care provider contracts and including effective date and applicability provisions
Status: In committee, March 4, 2025
An Act relating to vision benefit plans, the regulation of insurers and vision benefit managers, vision care providers, and vision care provider contracts and including effective date and applicability provisions.
What the bill says
A bill FOR An Act relating to vision benefit plans, the regulation of insurers and vision benefit managers, vision care providers, and vision care provider contracts and including effective date and applicability provisions.
From the introduced text, February 28, 2025:
A BILL FOR An Act relating to vision benefit plans, the regulation of insurers and vision benefit managers, vision care providers, and vision care provider contracts and including effective date and applicability provisions. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: TLSB 2470HH (3) nls/ko H.F. Section 1. NEW SECTION. 514M.1 Definitions. As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. "Chargeback" means a dollar amount, fee, surcharge, rebate, or item of value that reduces, modifies, or offsets all or part of the covered person's responsibility, provider reimbursement, allowed amount, or fee schedule for a covered service or covered material. 2. "Cost sharing" means any coverage limit, copayment, coinsurance, deductible, or other out-of-pocket expense requirement. 3. "Covered material" means a material for which reimbursement from an insurer, vision benefit manager, or subcontractor is provided to a vision care provider by a covered person's plan contract, or for which a reimbursement would be available but for the application of the covered person's cost sharing, regardless of how the materials are listed or described in a covered person's benefit plan's definition of benefits. 4. "Covered person" means a policyholder, subscriber, enrollee, or other individual participating in a health benefit plan, vision benefit plan, or vision benefit discount plan that provides for third-party payment or prepayment of …
Sponsors
- Jacob Bossman (R, 14) · primary sponsor
Latest actions
- : Subcommittee recommends passage.
- : Subcommittee Meeting: 03/04/2025 8:00AM RM 103.
- : Subcommittee: Bossman, Barker and Judge. H.J. 488 .
- : Introduced, referred to Commerce. H.J. 474 .
Subjects: medical care, insurance, vision
Common questions
- What is HF656?
- HF656 is a bill in the Iowa Legislature (91st General Assembly): A BILL FOR An Act relating to vision benefit plans, the regulation of insurers and vision benefit managers, vision care providers, and vision care provider contracts and including effective date and applicability provisions.
- What does HF656 do?
- In its own words: A bill FOR An Act relating to vision benefit plans, the regulation of insurers and vision benefit managers, vision care providers, and vision care provider contracts and including effective date and applicability provisions.
- What is the status of HF656?
- In committee as of March 4, 2025. Latest action: Subcommittee recommends passage. (March 4, 2025).
- Who sponsored HF656?
- Jacob Bossman (R, 14).
- Where is the official record for HF656?
- On the Iowa Legislature website: https://www.legis.iowa.gov/legislation/BillBook?ba=HF+0656&ga=91
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