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STATE OF OKLAHOMA
2nd Session of the 58th Legislature (2022)
SENATE BILL 1413 By: Montgomery
AS INTRODUCED
An Act relating to mental health parity; defining
terms; requiring Insurance Department conduct
examination of mental health parity coverage;
establishing findings to be promulgated in
examination; requiring report be furn ished to certain
officials and electro nically published by certain
date; and providing an effective date .
BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKL AHOMA:
SECTION 1. NEW LAW A new section of law to be codified
in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 6060.11a of Title 36, unless
there is created a duplication in numb ering, reads as follows:
A. As used in this section:
1. “Market conduct examination” means an examination of the
health insurance operations of any entity administering a health
benefit plan in this state as defined pursuant to subsection C of
Section 6060.4 of Title 36 of the Oklahoma statutes; and
2. “Mental health parity” means the equal treatment of mental
health conditions and substance use disorder s in a health benefit
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plan administered in this state as described pursuant to Section
6060.11 of Title 36 of the Oklah oma Statutes.
B. The Insurance Department is hereby directed to conduct a
market conduct examination to analyze the non-quantitative
limitations of mental health parity. The study shall include an
assessment of network adequac y for the purposes of reporting the
availability of in-network mental health providers. The Department
shall use annual reports provided to the Department pursuant to
subsection E of Section 6060.11 of Title 36 of the Oklahoma
Statutes.
C. The Department shall furnish the examination findings to the
President Pro Tempore of the Senate, the Speaker of the House of
Representatives, and the Governor, and publish the examination
findings on the Mental Health Parity page of the Department website
no later than July 1, 2023.
SECTION 2. This act shall become effective Nov ember 1, 2022.
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