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Session of 2026
HOUSE BILL No. 2668
By Representative Simmons
2-3
AN ACT concerning insurance; relating to health insurance; mandating
health insurers to provide coverage for pain management services.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas:
Section 1. (a) All individual and group health insurance policies shall
develop a plan to provide adequate coverage of and access to pain
management services, including, but not limited to, nonopioid, nonnarcotic
medication for pain management and nonmedication pain management
services that serve as alternatives to the prescribing of opioid or narcotic
drugs.
(b) All individual and group health insurance policies shall submit the
plan required by subsection (a) to the department of insurance. The
department shall consider the adequacy of access to pain management
services under such plan and if any policies adopted by individual and
group health insurance policies create unduly preferential coverage of and
access to prescribed opioids for pain management without consideration of
other pain management services.
(c) This section shall apply to all policies, contracts and certificates
executed, delivered, issued for delivery, continued or renewed in this state
on and after January 1, 2027.
Sec. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its
publication in the statute book.
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