SB 417 Montana Senate · 2025 Regular Session

Generally revise laws relating to insurance coverage relating to obesity prevention

SB 417 would require most Montana health insurance plans to cover certain injectable medicines prescribed for glucose control or weight loss in adults diagnosed with prediabetes, gestational diabetes, or obesity. Coverage must be deemed medically necessary by a physician and requires participants to join a lifestyle management program to continue treatment. The bill applies to individual and group health insurance policies but excludes Medicare Advantage plans. It amends Montana insurance law to mandate this coverage as a standard benefit.

Issues: ✓ Healthcare

Bill status died 1 of 4 stages cleared

Introduction

Feb 2025

Committee Review

Floor Vote

Governor

Introduced Feb 21, 2025 Last action May 23, 2025

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LC1935.pdf → SB0417_1.pdf · 2 edits

MINOR

The bill number was updated from LC 1935 to SB 417, and a new provision was added to explicitly include out-of-state mail service pharmacies in the definition of plans that can dispense prescription drugs. This change expands the scope of covered pharmacies to ensure mail-order services from other states are recognized under the bill's requirements.

Scope change

The bill's applicability now explicitly includes out-of-state mail service pharmacies in addition to existing in-state options.

REQUIREMENT

Added a new line defining 'out-of-state mail service pharmacy' as a provider eligible to dispense prescription drugs under the plan.

TECHNICAL

Updated the bill identifier from LC 1935 to SB 417 throughout the document headers and footers.

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Amendments

Mar 1, 2025

Amended

(S) Tabled in Committee - (S) Business, Labor and Economic Affairs

upper

Feb 24, 2025

Committee

(S) Referred to Committee - (S) Business, Labor and Economic Affairs

upper

Feb 21, 2025

Introduced

(S) Introduced

upper

1 primary · 0 co-sponsors