SB 1072

This bill requires health insurance policies and self-insured governmental

health plans to cover home test kits for sexually transmitted diseases, including any

laboratory costs for processing the kits. Under the bill, a home test kit must be a test

recommended by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines

or the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force must have been given a waiver of a

specific federal law, approved or cleared by the federal Food and Drug

Administration, or is developed by a laboratory in accordance with established

regulations and quality standards. The policies and plans are required to cover the

home test kit if the use of the kit is determined to be medically necessary or

appropriate and is ordered by a health care provider or furnished through a standing

order. Health insurance policies are known in the bill as disability insurance

policies.

This proposal may contain a health insurance mandate requiring a social and

financial impact report under s. 601.423, stats.