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<section article="gin" article_name="Insurance" number="15-847.1" title_number="15" title_name="Health Insurance" subtitle_number="8" subtitle_name="Required Health Insurance Benefits">
  <level label="a">
    <text>This section applies to:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>insurers and nonprofit health service plans that provide coverage for prescription drugs under individual, group, or blanket health insurance policies or contracts that are issued or delivered in the State; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>health maintenance organizations that provide coverage for prescription drugs under individual group contracts that are issued or delivered in the State.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>Subject to paragraph (2) of this subsection and § 15–822.1 of this subtitle, an entity subject to this section may not impose a copayment or coinsurance requirement on a prescription drug prescribed to treat diabetes, HIV, or AIDS that exceeds $150 for up to a 30–day supply of the drug.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>On July 1 each year, the limit on the copayment or coinsurance requirement on a prescription drug prescribed to treat diabetes, HIV, or AIDS shall increase by a percentage equal to the percentage change from the preceding year in the medical care component of the March Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers, Washington Metropolitan Area, from the U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
