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89th General Assembly · Funnel one-pager · Monday, November 9, 2026

HF 2199: Relating to continuity of care and nonmedical switching by health carriers, health benefit plans, and utilization review organizations, and including applicability provisions

Died when the session ended · The General Assembly adjourned on May 24, 2022. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died.

What it does

This bill relates to the continuity of care for a covered person and nonmedical switching by health carriers, health benefit plans, and utilization review organizations. The bill defines “nonmedical switching” as a health benefit plan’s restrictive changes to the health benefit plan’s formulary after the current plan year has begun or during the open enrollment period for the upcoming plan year, causing a covered person who is medically stable on the covered person’s current prescribed drug as determined by the prescribing health care professional, to switch to a less costly alternate prescription drug.

Sponsors

Human Resources (successor To Hf 372) committee

Cost

See the fiscal note

House File 2199 is estimated to increase the annual cost to the State of Iowa Insurance Plan and will increase expenses from State funds used to pay State employees’ health insurance costs. 0% increase in pharmacy costs. The Bill’s provisions for nonmedical sw…

Lobbying · 24 for, 11 against

For: Alliance for Patient Access; American Diabetes Association; American Heart Association; American Lung Association; Blank Childrens Hospital; Brain Injury Alliance of Iowa; CHAIN; CHILDSERVE; Easterseals Iowa; Epilepsy Foundation Iowa; Genentech, Inc., A Member of the Roche Group; IA Mental Health Planning Council; and 12 more

Against: Association for Accessible Medicines (AAM); CVS Health; Elevance Health, and its Affiliates dba Anthem, Inc.; Federation of Iowa Insurers; Iowa Association of Business and Industry (ABI); Iowa Bankers Insurance & Services, Inc.; Iowa Total Care, A Subsidiary of Centene Corporation; National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB /IA); Pharmaceutical Care Management Association; United Healthcare Services, Inc.; Wellmark, Inc.

In plain words

  1. February 1, 2022Filed in the House
  2. February 9, 2022Cost estimate (fiscal note) posted

From public records at legis.iowa.gov, compiled by Funnel (iowafunnel.com), an independent, nonpartisan site. Current as of Monday, November 9, 2026. https://iowafunnel.com/bills/89/HF2199