To amend sections 1751.12 and 3923.02 of the Revised Code to require the Superintendent of Insurance to post on the Department of Insurance's web site premium rates that are filed with the Superintendent by health insurers.

Section 1. That sections 1751.12 and 3923.02 of the Revised Code be amended to read as follows:

Sec. 1751.12.  (A)(1) No contractual periodic prepayment and no premium rate for nongroup and conversion policies for health care services, or any amendment to them, may be used by any health insuring corporation at any time until the contractual periodic prepayment and premium rate, or amendment, have been filed with the superintendent of insurance, and shall not be effective until the expiration of sixty days after their filing unless the superintendent sooner gives approval. The filing shall be accompanied by an actuarial certification in the form prescribed by the superintendent. The superintendent shall disapprove the filing, if the superintendent determines within the sixty-day period that the contractual periodic prepayment or premium rate, or amendment, is not in accordance with sound actuarial principles or is not reasonably related to the applicable coverage and characteristics of the applicable class of enrollees. The superintendent shall notify the health insuring corporation of the disapproval, and it shall thereafter be unlawful for the health insuring corporation to use the contractual periodic prepayment or premium rate, or amendment.

(2) No contractual periodic prepayment for group policies for health care services shall be used until the contractual periodic prepayment has been filed with the superintendent. The filing shall be accompanied by an actuarial certification in the form prescribed by the superintendent. The superintendent may reject a filing made under division (A)(2) of this section at any time, with at least thirty days' written notice to a health insuring corporation, if the contractual periodic prepayment is not in accordance with sound actuarial principles or is not reasonably related to the applicable coverage and characteristics of the applicable class of enrollees.

(3) At any time, the superintendent, upon at least thirty days' written notice to a health insuring corporation, may withdraw the approval given under division (A)(1) of this section, deemed or actual, of any contractual periodic prepayment or premium rate, or amendment, based on information that either of the following applies:

(a) The contractual periodic prepayment or premium rate, or amendment, is not in accordance with sound actuarial principles.

(b) The contractual periodic prepayment or premium rate, or amendment, is not reasonably related to the applicable coverage and characteristics of the applicable class of enrollees.

(4) Any disapproval under division (A)(1) of this section, any rejection of a filing made under division (A)(2) of this section, or any withdrawal of approval under division (A)(3) of this section, shall be effected by a written notice, which shall state the specific basis for the disapproval, rejection, or withdrawal and shall be issued in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code.

(5) Within three days of the superintendent's receipt of the filing, the superintendent shall post any contractual periodic prepayment or premium rate filed by a health insuring corporation under division (A) of this section in the internet database created by the superintendent under section 3923.02 of the Revised Code.

(B) Notwithstanding division (A) of this section, a health insuring corporation may use a contractual periodic prepayment or premium rate for policies used for the coverage of beneficiaries enrolled in medicare pursuant to a medicare risk contract or medicare cost contract, or for policies used for the coverage of beneficiaries enrolled in the federal employees health benefits program pursuant to 5 U.S.C.A. 8905, or for policies used for the coverage of medicaid recipients, or for policies used for coverage of participants of the children's buy-in program, or for policies used for the coverage of beneficiaries under any other federal health care program regulated by a federal regulatory body, or for policies used for the coverage of beneficiaries under any contract covering officers or employees of the state that has been entered into by the department of administrative services, if both of the following apply:

(1) The contractual periodic prepayment or premium rate has been approved by the United States department of health and human services, the United States office of personnel management, the department of job and family services, or the department of administrative services.

(2) The contractual periodic prepayment or premium rate is filed with the superintendent prior to use and is accompanied by documentation of approval from the United States department of health and human services, the United States office of personnel management, the department of job and family services, or the department of administrative services.

(C) The administrative expense portion of all contractual periodic prepayment or premium rate filings submitted to the superintendent for review must reflect the actual cost of administering the product. The superintendent may require that the administrative expense portion of the filings be itemized and supported.

(D)(1) Copayments must be reasonable and must not be a barrier to the necessary utilization of services by enrollees.

(2) A health insuring corporation, in order to ensure that copayments are reasonable and not a barrier to the necessary utilization of basic health care services by enrollees, may do one of the following:

(a) Impose copayment charges on any single covered basic health care service that does not exceed forty per cent of the average cost to the health insuring corporation of providing the service;

(b) Impose copayment charges that annually do not exceed twenty per cent of the total annual cost to the health insuring corporation of providing all covered basic health care services, including physician office visits, urgent care services, and emergency health services, when aggregated as to all persons covered under the filed product in question. In addition, annual copayment charges as to each enrollee shall not exceed twenty per cent of the total annual cost to the health insuring corporation of providing all covered basic health care services, including physician office visits, urgent care services, and emergency health services, as to such enrollee. The total annual cost of providing a health care service is the cost to the health insuring corporation of providing the health care service to its enrollees as reduced by any applicable provider discount.

(3) To ensure that copayments are reasonable and not a barrier to the utilization of basic health care services, a health insuring corporation may not impose, in any contract year, on any subscriber or enrollee, copayments that exceed two hundred per cent of the average annual premium rate to subscribers or enrollees.

(4) For purposes of division (D) of this section, both of the following apply:

(a) Copayments imposed by health insuring corporations in connection with a high deductible health plan that is linked to a health savings account are reasonable and are not a barrier to the necessary utilization of services by enrollees.

(b) Divisions (D)(2) and (3) of this section do not apply to a high deductible health plan that is linked to a health savings account.

(E) A health insuring corporation shall not impose lifetime maximums on basic health care services. However, a health insuring corporation may establish a benefit limit for inpatient hospital services that are provided pursuant to a policy, contract, certificate, or agreement for supplemental health care services.

(F) A health insuring corporation may require that an enrollee pay an annual deductible that does not exceed one thousand dollars per enrollee or two thousand dollars per family, except that:

(1) A health insuring corporation may impose higher deductibles for high deductible health plans that are linked to health savings accounts;

(2) The superintendent may adopt rules allowing different annual deductible amounts for plans with a medical savings account, health reimbursement arrangement, flexible spending account, or similar account;

(3) A health insuring corporation may impose higher deductibles under health plans if requested by the group contract, policy, certificate, or agreement holder, or an individual seeking coverage under an individual health plan. This shall not be construed as requiring the health insuring corporation to create customized health plans for group contract holders or individuals.

(G) As used in this section, "health savings account" and "high deductible health plan" have the same meanings as in the "Internal Revenue Code of 1986," 100 Stat. 2085, 26 U.S.C. 223, as amended.

Sec. 3923.02.  No certificate shall be furnished by any insurer in connection with, or pursuant to any provision of, any group sickness and accident insurance policy delivered, issued for delivery, or used in this state, and no policy of sickness and accident insurance shall be delivered, issued for delivery, or used in this state, nor shall any indorsement, rider, or application which becomes or which is designed to become a part of any such policy or certificate be delivered, issued for delivery, or used in this state, until a copy of the form of such policy, certificate, indorsement, rider, or application and of the premium rates and of the classification of risks pertaining thereto has been filed with the superintendent of insurance. No such policy, certificate, indorsement, rider or application shall be delivered, issued for delivery, or used until the expiration of thirty days after the form of such policy, certificate, indorsement, rider, or application has been filed with the superintendent, unless he the superintendent has previously given to the insurer his the superintendent's written approval thereto. If the superintendent finds that any such form of policy, certificate, indorsement, rider, or application which has been filed with him the superintendent by an insurer contains any provision which is contrary to the law of this state, or contains inconsistent provisions, or contains any question, provision, title, heading, backing, or other indication of its contents, which is ambiguous, misleading, or deceptive, or likely to mislead or deceive the policyholder, certificate holder or applicant, he the superintendent shall give written notice of his that finding to the insurer which has filed such form, and thereafter no insurer which has filed such form shall deliver, issue for delivery, or use such form in this state.

After the expiration of thirty days from the filing of any such form, or at any time after the superintendent has given written approval thereof, the superintendent may, after a hearing of which at least twenty days' written notice has been given to the insurer issuing such form, withdraw approval on any ground stated in this section. Such disapproval shall be effected by written order of the superintendent which shall state the ground for disapproval and the date, not less than thirty days after such hearing, when the withdrawal of approval shall become effective. After the date when the withdrawal of approval of any such form becomes effective, such form shall not be delivered, issued for delivery, or used in this state. The form of any certificate furnished by any insurer to a resident of this state in connection with, or pursuant to any provisions of, any group sickness and accident insurance policy which policy is not delivered, issued for delivery, or used in this state but which insures residents of this state shall, upon request of the superintendent, be filed with the superintendent.

The superintendent shall post in an internet database on the department of insurance's web site any premium rate filed in connection with a policy, certificate, indorsement, rider, or application that is filed under this section within three days of the superintendent's receipt of the filing. The superintendent shall organize the premium rates in the internet database by name of insurer, type of policy, and filing date and shall clearly label hyperlinks for each category. If the superintendent uses a searchable database to post the premium rate filings, the superintendent shall include search instructions and explanatory material that is written in plain language and that is sufficient to aid in easily finding a rate filing in the database.

The superintendent shall include a prominent hyperlink on the homepage of the department's web site that connects to the internet database created by the superintendent under this section.

Section 2. That existing sections 1751.12 and 3923.02 of the Revised Code are hereby repealed.