AB 1197

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 and must have been given a waiver of a

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

Administration, or been 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 referred to in the statutes as disability

insurance policies.

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

financial impact report under s. 601.423, stats.