§ 27-18-57. FDA approved prescription contraceptive drugs and devices.
(a) Every individual or group health insurance contract, plan, or policy that provides
prescription coverage and is delivered, issued for delivery, or renewed in this state
shall provide coverage for FDA approved contraceptive drugs and devices requiring
a prescription. Provided, that nothing in this subsection shall be deemed to mandate
or require coverage for the prescription drug RU 486.
(b) Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, any insurance company may issue
to a religious employer an individual or group health insura
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§ 27-18-57. FDA approved prescription contraceptive drugs and devices.
(a) Every individual or group health insurance contract, plan, or policy that provides
prescription coverage and is delivered, issued for delivery, or renewed in this state
shall provide coverage for FDA approved contraceptive drugs and devices requiring
a prescription. Provided, that nothing in this subsection shall be deemed to mandate
or require coverage for the prescription drug RU 486.
(b) Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, any insurance company may issue
to a religious employer an individual or group health insurance contract, plan, or
policy that excludes coverage for prescription contraceptive methods that are contrary
to the religious employer's bona fide religious tenets.
(c) As used in this section, "religious employer� means an employer that is a "church
or a qualified church-controlled organizationâ€� as defined in 26 U.S.C. § 3121.
(d) This section does not apply to insurance coverage providing benefits for: (1) Hospital
confinement indemnity; (2) Disability income; (3) Accident only; (4) Long-term care;
(5) Medicare supplement; (6) Limited benefit health; (7) Specified disease indemnity;
(8) Sickness or bodily injury or death by accident or both; and (9) Other limited
benefit policies.
(e) Every religious employer that invokes the exemption provided under this section shall
provide written notice to prospective enrollees prior to enrollment with the plan,
listing the contraceptive healthcare services the employer refuses to cover for religious
reasons.
(f) Beginning on the first day of each plan year after April 1, 2019, every health insurance
issuer offering group or individual health insurance coverage that covers prescription
contraception shall not restrict reimbursement for dispensing a covered prescription
contraceptive up to three hundred sixty-five (365) days at a time.