Missouri legislation · 2025 Regular Session
Missouri HB186: Creates provisions relating to the cost of insulin
Status: In committee, May 15, 2025
What the bill says
To amend chapter 376, RSMo, by adding thereto two new sections relating to the cost of insulin. SectionA. Chapter376,RSMo,isamendedbyaddingtheretotwonewsections,tobe known as sections 376.687 and 376.689, to read as follows: 376.687. 1. As used in this section, "prescription insulin drug" means a prescription drug that contains insulin and is used to control blood glucose levels to treat diabetes but does not include an insulin drug that is administered to a patient intravenously. 2. This section applies to any group or individual policy of accident and health insurance amended, delivered, iss.
From the introduced text:
To amend chapter 376, RSMo, by adding thereto two new sections relating to the cost of insulin. SectionA. Chapter376,RSMo,isamendedbyaddingtheretotwonewsections,tobe known as sections 376.687 and 376.689, to read as follows: 376.687. 1. As used in this section, "prescription insulin drug" means a prescription drug that contains insulin and is used to control blood glucose levels to treat diabetes but does not include an insulin drug that is administered to a patient intravenously. 2. This section applies to any group or individual policy of accident and health insurance amended, delivered, issued, or renewed on or after August 28, 2025. 3. An insurer that provides coverage for prescription insulin drugs under the terms of a health coverage plan the insurer offers shall limit the total amount that an insured is required to pay for a thirty-day supply of covered prescription insulin drugs at an amount not to exceed one hundred dollars, regardless of the quantity or type of covered prescription insulin drug used to fill the insured's prescription. 4. On January first of each year, the limit on the amount that an insured is required to pay for a thirty-day supply of a covered prescription insulin drug shall increase by a percentage equal to the percentage change from the preceding year in the medical care component of the Consumer Price Index of the …
Sponsors
- (D, 072) · primary sponsor