{"data":{"id":"us-ak/as-21.42.430","jurisdiction":"us-ak","citation":"AS 21.42.430","heading":"Coverage for anti-cancer medication.","body":"(a) Except for a fraternal benefit society, a health care insurer that offers, issues for delivery, delivers, or renews in this state a health care insurance plan that provides coverage for anti- cancer medications that are injected or intravenously administered by a health care provider and patient-administered anti-cancer medications, including those orally administered or self-injected, may not require a higher copayment, deductible, or coinsurance amount for a patient-administered medication than it requires for an anti- cancer medication injected or intravenously administered by a health care provider, regardless of the formulation or benefit category determination by the policy or plan.\n(b) A health care insurer may not offset the costs of compliance with (a) of this section by\n(1) increasing the copayment, deductible, or coinsurance amount required for anti-cancer medications injected or intravenously administered by a health care provider that are covered under the health insurance plan; or\n(2) reclassifying benefits with respect to anti-cancer medications.\n(c) Nothing in this section prohibits a health care insurance plan from requiring different cost-sharing rates for in-network and out-of-network providers or pharmacies.\n(d) In this section, “anti-cancer medication” means a drug or biologic used to kill cancerous cells, to slow or prevent the growth of cancerous cells, or to treat related side effects.","path":["Title 21. Insurance.","Chapter 42. The Insurance Contract.","Article 2. Specific Coverage Provisions."],"source_url":"https://www.akleg.gov/basis/statutes.asp#21.42.430","current_through":"Alaska Statutes 2025 (34th Legislature, 2025-2026)","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-02T06:17:40Z","sha256":"45d26cad91691525b9e8cedadc64500a0b8b4c05ac9d1e283591c5df0cab9fbd","source_id":"us-ak","stale":false,"prev":"us-ak/as-21.42.425","next":"us-ak/as-21.42.440"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}