health coverage; diabetes; monitor; supplies

Plain English Breakdown

The bill does not explicitly state that it requires health plans to provide medically necessary equipment and supplies prescribed by a healthcare provider, as this is implied in existing law.

Health Coverage for Diabetes Supplies

This bill updates Arizona's law to require health plans that cover diabetes to also provide coverage for additional medical devices and supplies needed by people with diabetes.

What This Bill Does

• Updates the list of equipment and supplies that health benefit plans must cover for diabetes patients.
• Adds insulin pens, self-injectable medications, continuous glucose monitors (CGMs), and insulin pumps to the list of covered items.
• Includes podiatric appliances for preventing complications related to diabetes if Medicare requires coverage.

Who It Names or Affects

• People with diabetes who have health insurance through accountable health plans in Arizona.
• Health benefit plans that cover diabetes in Arizona.

Terms To Know

Accountable Health Plan

An entity approved by the Department of Insurance and Financial Institutions to offer health benefit plans.

Continuous Glucose Monitor (CGM)

A device that continuously measures blood glucose levels, providing real-time data for managing diabetes.

Limits and Unknowns

• The bill does not specify how the additional costs of covering these supplies will be funded.
• It is unclear if there are any limits on which diabetic supplies can be obtained without a prescription.
• The effective date of this legislation has not been determined.

Official Summary Text

HB2083 - 572R - House Bill Summary

ARIZONA HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

57th
Legislature, 2nd Regular Session

Majority Research Staff

House
: HHS DPA/SE 11-1-0-0 | Third Read 36-15-8-0-1

HB2083
:
health coverage; diabetes; monitor; supplies

NOW:
supplies; health coverage; diabetes; monitor

Sponsor:
Representative Bliss, LD 1

House
Engrossed

Overview

Updates the list
of equipment and supplies that health benefit plans must cover for diabetes.

History

An
accountable health plan
is an entity that is
approved by the Department of Insurance and Financial Institution that offers
issues, or otherwise provides health benefit plans (A.R.S. �
20-2301
).

Any health benefits plan that is offered by an accountable
health plan and provides coverage for diabetes must also provide coverage for
equipment and supplies that are medically necessary and prescribed by a health
care provider. These include: 1) blood glucose monitors; 2) blood glucose
monitors for the legally blind; 3) test strips for glucose monitors and visual
reading and urine testing strips; 4) insulin preparations and glucagon; 5)
insulin cartridges; 6) drawing up devices and monitors for the visually
impaired; 7) injection aids; 8) insulin cartridges for the legally blind; 9)
syringes and lancets including automatic lancing devices; 10) prescribed oral
agents for controlling blood sugar that are included on the plan formulary; 11)
podiatric appliances for prevention of complications associated with diabetes
to the extent coverage is required under Medicare; and 12) any other device,
medication, equipment or supply for which coverage is required under Medicare
by January 1, 1999 (A.R.S. �
20-2325
).

Provisions

1.

Requires any health benefit
plans offered by an accountable health plan that provides coverage for diabetes
to also provide coverage for:

a.

insulin pens;

b.

self-injectable medications for
controlling blood sugar that are included on the plan formulary;

c.

adjunctive and nonadjunctive
continuous glucose monitors and relevant equipment or supplies, including transmitters,
sensors, readers, receivers and skin prep and dressing supplies; and

d.

insulin pumps, including
automated insulin delivery systems and continuous subcutaneous insulin infusion
devices. (Sec.1)

2.

Makes
technical and conforming changes. (Sec.1)

3.

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Current Bill Text

HB2083 - 572R - H Ver

House Engrossed

health
coverage; diabetes; monitor; supplies

(now: supplies;
health coverage; diabetes; monitor)

State of Arizona

House of Representatives

Fifty-seventh Legislature

Second Regular Session

2026

HOUSE BILL 2083

AN
ACT

amending section 20-2325, arizona
revised statutes; relating to accountable health plans.

(TEXT OF BILL BEGINS ON NEXT PAGE)

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:

Section 1. Section 20-2325, Arizona Revised
Statutes, is amended to read:

START_STATUTE
20-2325.

Diabetes; equipment; supplies

A. Any health benefits plan that is offered by an
accountable health plan and that provides coverage for diabetes shall also
provide coverage for equipment and supplies that are medically necessary and
that are prescribed by a health care provider, including:

1. Blood glucose monitors.

2. Blood glucose monitors for the legally blind.

3. Test strips for glucose monitors and visual
reading and urine testing strips.

4. Insulin preparations and glucagon.

5. Insulin cartridges.

6. Drawing up devices and monitors for the visually
impaired.

7. Injection aids.

8. Insulin cartridges for the legally blind.

9. Syringes
, insulin pens
and
lancets
,
including automatic lancing devices.

10. Prescribed oral
agents

and
self-injectable medications
for
controlling blood
sugar

glucose levels
that
are included on the plan formulary.

11. Adjunctive and nonadjunctive
continuous glucose monitors
and relevant equipment or
supplies, including transmitters, sensors, readers, receivers and skin
prep and dressing supplies.

12. Insulin pumps, including
automated insulin delivery systems and continuous subcutaneous insulin infusion
devices.

11.

13.
To
the extent coverage is required under medicare, podiatric appliances for
prevention of complications associated with diabetes.

12.

14.
Any
other device, medication, equipment or supply for which coverage is required
under medicare from and after January 1, 1999. The coverage required in this
paragraph is effective six months after the coverage is required under
medicare.

B.
Nothing in
Subsection A of
this section
does not
:

1.
Entitles

Entitle

a member or enrollee of an accountable health plan to equipment or supplies for
the treatment of diabetes that are not medically necessary as determined by the
accountable health plan's medical director or the medical director's designee.

2.
Provides

Provide

coverage for diabetic supplies obtained by a member or enrollee of an
accountable health plan without a prescription unless otherwise permitted
pursuant to the terms of the health benefits plan.

3.
Prohibits

Prohibit

an accountable health plan from imposing deductibles, coinsurance or other cost
sharing in relation to benefits for equipment or supplies for the treatment of
diabetes.
END_STATUTE