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S2629 • 2026

Requires health insurance carriers to reimburse health care providers for vaccines at rate no less than CDC cost per dose rate.

Requires health insurance carriers to reimburse health care providers for vaccines at rate no less than CDC cost per dose rate.

Budget
Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor
Gopal, Vin
Last action
2026-03-16
Official status
Referred to Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

Using official source text because the generated explanation was unavailable or could not be confirmed against the official bill text.

Requires health insurance carriers to reimburse health care providers for vaccines at rate no less than CDC cost per dose rate.

Requires health insurance carriers to reimburse health care providers for vaccines at rate no less than CDC cost per dose rate.

What This Bill Does

  • Requires health insurance carriers to reimburse health care providers for vaccines at rate no less than CDC cost per dose rate.
  • Topic: Budget and Appropriations Fiscal note: This bill has not been certified by OLS for a fiscal note.

Limits and Unknowns

  • This entry is temporarily using official source text because the generated explanation could not be confirmed against the official bill text during the last sync.

Bill History

  1. 2026-03-16 New Jersey Legislature

    Reported from Senate Committee, 2nd Reading

  2. 2026-03-16 New Jersey Legislature

    Referred to Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee

  3. 2026-01-13 New Jersey Legislature

    Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Commerce Committee

Official Summary Text

Requires health insurance carriers to reimburse health care providers for vaccines at rate no less than CDC cost per dose rate.
Topic:
Budget and Appropriations
Fiscal note:
This bill has not been certified by OLS for a fiscal note.

Current Bill Text

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S2629 TR

SENATE, No. 2629

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

222nd LEGISLATURE

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PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2026 SESSION

Sponsored by:

Senator VIN GOPAL

District 11 (Monmouth)

Senator� ROBERT W. SINGER

District 30 (Monmouth and Ocean)

SYNOPSIS

���� Requires health insurance carriers to reimburse
health care providers for vaccines at rate no less than CDC cost per dose rate.

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

���� As reported by the Senate Commerce Committee with
technical review.

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An Act
concerning reimbursement for health care providers and
supplementing P.L.1997, c.192 (C.26:2S-1 et seq.).

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Be It
Enacted
by the Senate and General Assembly of
the State of New Jersey:

���� 1.��� A carrier shall
reimburse a health care provider that provides a vaccine at a rate that is no
less than the vaccine�s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention cost per
dose rate pursuant to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention vaccine
price list.� The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention cost per dose rate
shall be the rate in effect on the date the vaccine was provided by the health
care provider.

���� 2.��� This act shall take effect
on the first day of the 13th month next following enactment and shall apply to
contracts entered into or renewed after that date.