| Last Action | to Banking & Insurance (S) |
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| Title | AN ACT relating to health care services provided in clinical trials for the treatment of cancer. |
| Bill Documents |
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| Bill Request Number | 177 |
| Sponsors | M. Marzian, C. Embry Jr., B. Housman, D. Watkins |
| Summary of Original Version | Create a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to prohibit a health benefit plan from excluding coverage for routine patient healthcare costs that are incurred in the course of a cancer clinical trial if the health benefit plan would provide coverage for the routine patient healthcare cost had it not been incurred in a cancer clinical trial; provide that nothing in this section requires a policy to offer, nor prohibit a policy from offering, cancer clinical trial services by a participating provider; provide that nothing in this section requires services that are performed in a cancer clinical trial by a non-participating provider of a policy to be reimbursed at the same rate as those performed by a participating provider of the policy. |
| Index Headings of Original Version |
Diseases - Cancer, clinical trials for treatment of, health plan Drugs and Medicines - Cancer, clinical trials for treatment of, health plan Health and Medical Services - Cancer, clinical trials for treatment of, health plan Insurance, Health - Cancer, clinical trials for treatment of, health plan |
| Proposed Amendments | House Floor Amendment 1 |
| Votes | Vote History |
| 10/14/08 |
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| 01/06/09 |
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| 01/07/09 |
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| 02/09/09 |
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| 02/11/09 |
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| 02/12/09 |
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| 02/24/09 |
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| 02/25/09 |
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| 02/26/09 |
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| 03/02/09 |
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| Amendment | House Floor Amendment 1 |
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| Sponsor | M. Marzian |
| Summary | Amend the exclusion from "routine patient healthcare costs" to include any treatment outside the usual and customary standard type and frequency of any diagnostic modality and delete any treatment modality care required to administer or support the service item or investigational drug that is the subject of the clinical trial. |
| Index Headings |
Diseases - Cancer, clinical trials for treatment of, health plan Drugs and Medicines - Cancer, clinical trials for treatment of, health plan Health and Medical Services - Cancer, clinical trials for treatment of, health plan Insurance, Health - Cancer, clinical trials for treatment of, health plan |
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