HF 2249: Relating to vision benefit plans, vision benefit managers, vision care providers, and vision care provider contracts and including civil penalties and effective date and applicability provisions

What it does

This bill relates to vision benefit plans, vision benefit managers, vision care providers, and vision care provider contracts. The bill details the standards of conduct for vision benefit managers (managers), including the requirements for a reimbursement paid by a manager to a vision care provider (provider), annual increases in reimbursement rate fee schedules, the period of time for a manager to recover a reimbursement amount from a provider, the auditing time frame for an audit of a claim or a collection of a claim, a reimbursement for a covered service or covered material provided to a covered person, the identification of participating providers, and the licensure requirements for managers.

House subcommittee · named February 10, 2026

• Rep. Jacob Bossman (R) · jacob.bossman@legis.iowa.gov
• Rep. Kenan Judge (D) · kenan.judge@legis.iowa.gov
• Rep. Judd Lawler (R) · judd.lawler@legis.iowa.gov

Lobbying · 1 for, 12 against

For: Iowa Optometric Association

Against: Delta Dental of Iowa; Elevance Health, and its Affiliates dba Anthem, Inc.; Federation of Iowa Insurers; Iowa Association of Business and Industry (ABI); Iowa Total Care, A Subsidiary of Centene Corporation; Molina Healthcare, Inc.; National Association of Benefits and Insurance Professionals-Iowa Chapter; National Association of Vision Care Plans; National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB /IA); Principal Financial Group; VSP Vision, Inc. c/o MultiState Associates LLC; Wellmark, Inc.

In plain words

1. January 30, 2026Filed in the House and sent to the Commerce committee
2. February 10, 2026House subcommittee named: Bossman, Judge and Lawler
3. February 12, 2026Subcommittee recommended passing it