Health Insurance: Washington bills, 2025 and 2026
Legislative staff filed 82 measures from the 2025-26 session under Health Insurance. Each one is listed below with the description staff wrote for it, and measures with a page of their own are linked.
- HB 1025 · Long-term service and supports, reopening exemption for employees who have purchased long-term care insurance
- HB 1026 · Long-term services and supports, sharing of benefits with spouse
- HB 1034 · Drugs, prohibiting disadvantaging of nonopioid drugs
- HB 1062 · Biomarker testing, coverage required for health carriers, public employees, and public assistance
- HB 1090 · Reproductive health, modifying required contraceptive supply
- HB 1123 · Contractors, health carrier reimbursement
- HB 1129 · Standard fertility preservation services, requiring coverage
- HB 1291 · Cost sharing, labor and delivery services deductible
- HB 1326 · Obesity, requiring coverage for diagnosis and treatment of chronic disease of obesity
- HB 1379 · Primary care, requiring carriers to report spending
- HB 1382 · Claims data, modifying reporting requirements
- HB 1392 · Covered lives assessment, carriers and managed care organizations to pay
- HB 1415 · Long-term services and supports, new chapter
- HB 1425 · Pharmacogenetic testing for psychotropic medications, requiring coverage
- HB 1430 · Reimbursement, requiring advanced practice registered nurses, physician assistants to receive same as physicians
- HB 1432 · Mental health and substance use disorder services, requiring coverage
- HB 1445 · Washington health trust, establishing with single comprehensive benefits package
- HB 1505 · Insurance commissioner updates, including hearing aid requirement and various repeals and corrections
- HB 1535 · Dental insurance, restrictions including requiring care decisions be made by dentist and patient
- HB 1566 · Prior authorization, increasing transparency
- HB 1589 · Contracts, requirements between carriers and providers
- HB 1603 · Medicare, voluntary disenrollment from Medicare advantage plan
- HB 1627 · Covered services, adjusting calculation of 12-month coverage periods
- HB 1639 · Medicare advantage coverage, requiring disclosures for consumers
- HB 1655 · Providers, requiring certain carrier contracts to increase compensation
- HB 1669 · Prosthetic limbs and custom orthotic braces, requiring coverage
- HB 1706 · Prior authorization, requiring federal alignment for application programming interface
- HB 1725 · Biosimilar medicines, increasing access as alternatives
- HB 1741 · Pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders, requiring coverage in certain circumstances
- HB 1754 · Medicare supplemental insurance, modifying availability
- HB 1766 · Public employees, restrictions for third-party administrators for self-funded plans
- HB 1770 · Vision benefits, requirements for carriers and vision benefit managers
- HB 1812 · Anesthesia services, coverage requirements
- HB 1864 · Emergency medical services, requiring coverage for ambulance transportation to nonemergency facilities
- HB 1957 · Small group market health benefit plans, modifying commissioner approval
- HB 1971 · Prescription hormone therapy, refill reimbursement
- HB 2041 · Medicaid, altering length of postpartum coverage
- HB 2073 · Nonprofit health carriers, excessive surplus to fund state health care affordability account
- HB 2106 · Notice and agreement requirements for carrier contract modification
- HB 2196 · Certain pediatric neuropsychiatric treatments required to be covered
- HB 2242 · Preventive health services, immunization recommendations, and required coverage
- HB 2283 · Medical loss ratio to be at least 90 percent
- HB 2384 · Continuing care retirement community applications requiring actuarial analysis
- HB 2546 · Overpayment refund request exception for behavioral health cases removed
- HB 2564 · Exchange plans required to meet market factor criteria that address access and affordability
- HB 2657 · Abortion savings program with health carrier assessment to provide grants to support equitable access
- HB 2658 · Carriers required to submit carrier-level coverage and access data for behavioral health issues
- HB 2683 · Health carriers to provide access to billing and health plan coverage information
- HB 2720 · Health insurance annual covered lives assessment to fund behavioral health crisis services
- SB 5075 · Cost sharing, prohibiting for certain pre-natal and post-natal care services
- SB 5083 · Contractors, health carrier reimbursement
- SB 5084 · Primary care, requiring carriers to report spending
- SB 5121 · Standard fertility preservation services, requiring coverage
- SB 5233 · Washington health trust, establishing with single comprehensive benefits package
- SB 5262 · Insurance commissioner updates, including hearing aid requirement and various repeals and corrections
- SB 5291 · Long-term services and supports, new chapter
- SB 5324 · Prior authorization, requiring federal alignment for application programming interface
- SB 5351 · Dental insurance, payment method and restrictions
- SB 5353 · Obesity, requiring coverage for diagnosis and treatment of chronic disease of obesity
- SB 5372 · Covered lives assessment, carriers and managed care organizations to pay
- SB 5395 · Prior authorization, increasing transparency
- SB 5477 · Mental health services, requiring coverage
- SB 5498 · Reproductive health, modifying required contraceptive supply
- SB 5588 · Contracts, requiring opportunity for negotiation between carrier and providers
- SB 5594 · Drug coverage, biosimilar alternatives
- SB 5629 · Prosthetic limbs and custom orthotic braces, requiring coverage
- SB 5642 · Maternal care, incentivizing medicaid managed care organizations to improve their performance measures
- SB 5683 · Health carriers, requiring report of claims payment timeliness
- SB 5793 · Public employees, eliminating smart health program
- SB 5808 · Nonprofit health carriers, excessive surplus to fund state health care affordability account
- SB 5845 · Timely payment requirement for health carriers
- SB 5916 · Discouraging nonopioid drugs prohibited
- SB 5953 · Medical loss ratio to be at least 90 percent
- SB 5967 · Preventive health services, immunization recommendations, and required coverage
- SB 6071 · Overpayment refund request exception for behavioral health cases removed
- SB 6159 · Annual coverage assessment for authorized insurers or taxpayers
- SB 6182 · Abortion savings program with health carrier assessment to provide grants to support equitable access
- SB 6183 · HIV antiviral drug coverage mandated without prior authorization
- SB 6210 · Exchange plans required to meet market factor criteria that address access and affordability
- SB 6305 · Carriers required to submit carrier-level coverage and access data for behavioral health issues
- SJM 8002 · Medicare, modifying original medicare and medicare advantage and recouping improper payments
- SJM 8004 · Universal health care, creating program
All topics · All 2025-26 Washington State bills
Source: the Washington State Legislature’s Topical Index. OlympiaTrack is an independent bill-tracking service and is not affiliated with the Legislature.