Nevada legislation · 83rd Legislature (2025)
Nevada AB382: Revises provisions relating to health insurance coverage for biomarker testing. (BDR 57-913)
Status: Introduced
What the bill says
An act relating to insurance; expanding the scope of required insurance coverage for biomarker testing; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Legislative Counsel's Digest: Existing law requires certain public and private health plans, including Medicaid and health plans for state and local employees to provide coverage, in certain circumstances, for medically necessary biomarker testing for the diagnosis, treatment, appropriate management and ongoing monitoring of cancer when such biomarker testing is supported by medical evidence…
From the introduced text, March 11, 2025:
AN ACT relating to insurance; expanding the scope of required insurance coverage for biomarker testing; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Legislative Counsel's Digest: Existing law requires certain public and private health plans, including Medicaid and health plans for state and local employees to provide coverage, in certain circumstances, for medically necessary biomarker testing for the diagnosis, treatment, appropriate management and ongoing monitoring of cancer when such biomarker testing is supported by medical evidence. (NRS 287.010, 287.04335, 422.272364, 689A.0446, 689B.0361, 695C.050, 689C.1688, 695A.1859, 695B.19087, 695C.16932, 695G.1703) This bill removes the limitations that such coverage is only required if the biomarker testing and (2) for the diagnosis, treatment, appropriate management and ongoing monitoring of cancer. This bill thus requires public and private health plans to cover any biomarker testing for the diagnosis, treatment, appropriate management and ongoing management of a medical condition or disease when such biomarker testing is supported by medical evidence, regardless of whether the biomarker testing is determined to be medically necessary. - *AB382* THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEVADA, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEMBLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. NRS 689A.0446 is hereby amended to read as follows: 689A.0446 1. Subject to the limitations prescribed by subsection 4, an insurer that issues a policy of health insurance shall include in the policy coverage for …