Ohio
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State Laws Database: 0 records
NHGRI database archive: 8 records
Status: 5 enacted or approved; 0 proposed or pending
Most common mapped topics: Health Insurance Nondiscrimination (5) · Health Insurance Coverage (2) · Privacy (1)
Records in Ohio
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| Jurisdiction | Law or policy | Topics | Status | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ohio | 2021 State Bills Ohio 2021 HB 281NHGRI archive2021 legislative sessionPrimary source | Health Insurance Nondiscrimination | Enacted | Amends the definition of "genetic screening or testing" used in the state health_insurance_nondiscrimination statute. Replaces "abnormalities, defects, or deficiencies," in the definition with "genotypes, mutations, or chromosomal changes." Carries over to 2022. |
| Ohio | 2021 State Bills Ohio 2021 HB 371NHGRI archive2021 legislative sessionPrimary source | Health Insurance Coverage | Enacted | Requires the state Medicaid program, individual health insurers and group health insurers to cover breast cancer screening for women meeting certain conditions, including those who have a genetic predisposition to breast cancer. Carries over to 2022. |
| Ohio | 2020 State Bills Ohio 2020 HB 649NHGRI archive2020 legislative sessionPrimary source | Privacy | Died | Requires a health care provider to obtain an individual's informed consent prior to testing for the presence or absence of a communicable life-threatening disease or infection or immune response to disease or infection that is the subject of an epidemic or pandemic. The results of an individual's test, including any partial or complete biometric record of an individual's DNA sequence is the property of the individual and may only be transmitted to the individual tested. 5/27/20 Referred to Committee on State and Local Government. Died. |
| Ohio | 2015 State Bills Ohio 2015 HB 64NHGRI archive2015 legislative sessionPrimary source | Health Insurance Nondiscrimination | Enacted | Amends existing health_insurance_nondiscrimination law. The bill adds that accident and sickness insurers and public employee health benefit plans may not use information from genetic screening or testing to set premiums for, a policy or plan. Effective 6/30/2015. |
| Ohio | 2013 State Bills Ohio 2013 SB 88NHGRI archive2013 legislative sessionPrimary source | Health Insurance Nondiscrimination | Died | This bill creates the Ohio Health Benefit Exchange. The exchange must meet the minimum requirements of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010. Died. |
| Ohio | 2009 State Bills Ohio 2009 HB 8NHGRI archive2009 legislative sessionPrimary source | Health Insurance Coverage | Died | This bill prohibits individual or group accident and sickness insurers from excluding coverage for the screening and diagnosis of autism, including genetic testing. Measure failed. |
| Ohio | State StatuteOhio: ORC 1751.65NHGRI archiveDate not stated in source labelPrimary source | Health Insurance Nondiscrimination | Statute | A health insuring corporation may not (1) cancel or fail to renew the coverage because of any health status-related factor, including genetic information, (2) require an individual seeking coverage to submit to genetic screening or testing or taken into account or inquire about such testing, (3) make a decision adverse to the applicant based on entries in medical records or other reports of genetic screening or testing, or (4) cancel or refuse to issue or renew coverage for health care services based on the results of genetic screening or testing, or (6) limit benefits of an individual or group policy, contract, or agreement based on the results of genetic screening or testing. A violation of these provisions is an unfair and deceptive act or practice in the business of insurance. Further provisions apply upon the repeal of the current protections, which are in effect until February 9, 2014. |
| Ohio | State StatuteOhio: ORC 3901.21, 3901.41 and 3901.501NHGRI archiveDate not stated in source labelPrimary source | Health Insurance Nondiscrimination | Statute | It is an unfair and deceptive act or practice in the business of insurance to engage in any underwriting standard or other practice that due solely to any health status-related factor, including genetic information, terminates or fails to renew an existing individual policy, contract, plan of health benefits, or a health benefit plan issued to an employer, for which an individual would otherwise be eligible, or, with respect to a health benefit plan issued to an employer, excludes or causes the exclusion of an individual from coverage under an existing employer-provided policy, contract, or plan of health benefits. Insurers issuing accident and sickness insurance, self-insurers or public employee health benefit plans may not consider information obtained from genetic screening or testing in processing an application or in determining insurability or inquire into the results of genetic screening or testing or use such information to cancel, refuse to issue or renew, or limit benefits. The superintendent of insurance has the authority to investigate violations of this provision. |