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Read. Follow. Verify.Pennsylvania Bill HB 672 Requires Health Insurers to Cover Infant Egg and Peanut Allergen Supplements
Last action · February 20, 2025: Referred to INSURANCE, Feb. 20, 2025Sponsors: Gina Curry and 10 others
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What This Bill Would Do
Pennsylvania House Bill 672 requires health insurers to provide coverage at no additional cost or for prescribed early egg or peanut allergen introduction dietary supplements for infants under one year old. The measure applies to health insurance policies offered, issued, or renewed on or after the effective date, taking effect in 60 days.
Families with infants will see insurance companies absorb the cost for specific preventive allergy dietary supplements that otherwise require out-of-pocket spending, altering coverage mandates for health plans statewide.
Who It Would Affect
Groups the bill's text would affect if enacted, as described in the record. Being affected is not a position for or against it.
Infants under one year of age
Infants receive prescribed early egg or peanut allergen introduction dietary supplements covered by their health insurance.
Health insurers
Insurers must provide coverage for early egg or peanut allergen introduction dietary supplements without applying cost-sharing.
Health care practitioners
Practitioners are authorized to prescribe early egg or peanut allergen introduction dietary supplements to infants.
Key Facts
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Frequently Asked Questions
Which infants qualify for the covered allergen supplements?
Do parents have to pay a copayment or deductible for these supplements?
Are all types of insurance policies required to provide this coverage?
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Votes, people, money & the original sourceWhere This Stands
Currently in committee. The next step in the legislative lifecycle is Floor Vote.
Procedural history
1 action- Feb 20, 2025HouseCommitteeReferred to INSURANCE, Feb. 20, 2025
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Sources
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