Section 13-7-26 - Behavioral health services; elimination of cost sharingA. Until January 1, 2027, group health coverage, including any form of self-insurance, offered, issued or renewed under the Health Care Purchasing Act that offers coverage of behavioral health services shall not impose cost sharing on those behavioral health services.B. For the purposes of this section: (1) "behavioral health services" means professional and ancillary services for the treatment, habilitation, prevention and identification of mental illnesses, substance abuse disorders and trauma spectrum disorders, including inpatient, detoxification, residential treatment and partial hospitalization, intensive outpatient therapy, outpatient and all medications, including brand-name pharmacy drugs when generics are unavailable;(2) "coinsurance" means a cost-sharing method that requires an enrollee to pay a stated percentage of medical expenses after any deductible amount is paid; provided that coinsurance rates may differ for different types of services under the same group health plan;(3) "copayment" means a cost-sharing method that requires an enrollee to pay a fixed dollar amount when health care services are received, with the plan administrator paying the balance of the allowable amount; provided that there may be different copayment requirements for different types of services under the same group health plan; and(4) "cost sharing" means a copayment, coinsurance, deductible or any other form of financial obligation of an enrollee other than a premium or a share of a premium, or any combination of any of these financial obligations, as defined by the terms of a group health plan.Added by 2021, c. 136,s. 3, eff. 1/1/2022.