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Committee adopts amendment adding 'standard-of-care' language to PANS/PANDAS insurance bill; HB292 cleared from committee
Summary
The committee adopted amendment 3 to House Bill 292 to require coverage include the "current standard of care" for PANS/PANDAS treatments; the amended bill passed from committee (5–2) with an indeterminate fiscal note and will proceed with individual recommendations.
Lawmakers on the House Health and Social Services Committee on Tuesday amended and moved forward House Bill 292, a measure requiring insurers to cover specified treatments for PANS/PANDAS, after a sustained debate about whether the statute should refer to a prescriptive list of therapies or to the "current standard of care."
Representative Gray moved amendment 3 to add a clause that coverage "must also include the current standard of care," arguing it…
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