Bill Would Make Insurers Pay for Smoking Cessation Drugs
SB 220, by Sen. Leland Yee (D-San Francisco), would require all state health insurance companies to provide coverage of any FDA-approved smoking cessation drug. The proposal would remove copayments and deductibles for such treatment and go further than the federal health reform law by mandating that all health plans, not just those in planned insurance exchanges, provide coverage for smoking cessation medications.
- "California Bill Would Require Insurers To Pay for Stop-Smoking Drugs" (Calvan, Sacramento Bee, 7/4).