The bills below are separate. Each one will be judged on its own merits. A sponsor is required for both the House and the Senate. The House version and the Senate version are identical. Other co-sponsors may sign on as supporters of the bills over time.

The State is restricting your access to cancer treatment. SB367/HB523 seeks to change this. Show your support and contact your representatives today!
BILL SUMMARY:
The bill expands the current proton therapy coverage by the state health plan, by requiring the state group insurance program to cover a physician prescribed hypofractionation proton therapy treatment at the same cost as the state plan would pay for traditional radiation therapy (IMRT). The bill adds no cost to the state, the insurers or the patient receiving the treatment.
Senate Bill 0367
View BillSenator Mark Green | (615) 741-2374 | sen.mark.green@capitol.tn.gov
House Bill 0523
Representative Bob Ramsey | (615) 741-3560 | rep.bob.ramsey@capitol.tn.gov
As introduced, requires health insurance coverage to cover hypofractionated proton therapy in the same manner as it covers intensity modulated radiation therapy under certain conditions.
In this bill, the Benefits Administration indicated they would be adding proton therapy to their health plan for all Medicare indication and now they are not. View page 3 in the document found below.
Watch video of testimony on SB 0367
January 23, 2018
TN Department of Finance and Administration
Representatives from Provision CARES Proton Therapy – Knoxville
Watch video of Testimony on SB0523
March 13, 2018
Insurance and Banking Committee
Representatives from Provision CARES Proton Therapy – Knoxville
Senate Bill 0758
View BillRepresentative Ryan Williams | (615) 741-1875 | rep.ryan.williams@capitol.tn.gov
House Bill 0899
Senator Mark Pody | (615) 741-2421 | sen.mark.pody@capitol.tn.gov
No health benefit plan that provides coverage for cancer therapy shall hold proton radiation therapy to a higher standard of clinical evidence for medical policy benefit coverage decisions than the health plan requires for coverage of any other radiation therapy treatment.
Senate Bill 0922
Senator Bill Ketron | (615) 741-6853 | sen.bill.ketron@capitol.tn.gov
House Bill 1059
Representative William Lamberth | (615) 741-1980 | rep.william.lamberth@capitol.tn.gov
As introduced, prohibits an insurance policy that provides benefits for anti-cancer medications that are injected or intravenously administered by a healthcare provider and anti-cancer medications that are patient administered from requiring a higher copayment, deductible, or coinsurance amount for the patient administered anti-cancer medication than for the injected or intravenously administered anti-cancer medication.
This is a “Call to Action” for the State Commerce and Labor Committee and House Insurance and Labor Committee – Please show your support and take action by reaching out to the TN Legislature Committee Members and ask them to vote “YES” on these bills. Click here to email all members listed below, or you may email them each individually by clicking their email address below.
State Commerce & Labor Committee Members:
- Sen. Bill Ketron | (615) 741-6853 | sen.bill.ketron@capitol.tn.gov
- Sen. Bo Watson | (615) 741-3227 | sen.bo.watson@capitol.tn.gov
- Sen. Dolores Gresham | (615) 741-2368 | sen.dolores.gresham@capitol.tn.gov
- Sen. Frank S. Niceley | (615) 741-2061 | sen.frank.niceley@capitol.tn.gov
- Sen. Jack Johnson | (615) 741-2495 | sen.jack.johnson@capitol.tn.gov
- Sen. Ken Yager | (615) 741-1449 | sen.ken.yager@capitol.tn.gov
- Sen. Kerry Roberts | (615) 741-4499 | sen.kerry.roberts@capitol.tn.gov
- Sen. Mark Green | (615) 741-2374 | sen.mark.green@capitol.tn.gov
- Sen. Regina Tate | (615) 741-2509 | sen.reginald.tate@capitol.tn.gov
House Insurance & Banking Committee Members:
- Rep. Bill Beck | (615) 741-3229 | rep.bill.beck@capitol.tn.gov
- Rep. Charles Sargent | (615) 741-6808 | rep.charles.sargent@capitol.tn.gov
- Rep. Clark Boyd | (615) 741-7086 | rep.clark.boyd@capitol.tn.gov
- Rep. Dennis Powers | (615) 741-3335 | rep.dennis.powers@capitol.tn.gov
- Rep. Dwayne Thompson | (615) 741-1920 | rep.dwayne.thompson@capitol.tn.gov
- Rep. G. A. Hardaway | (615) 741-5625 | rep.ga.hardaway@capitol.tn.gov
- Rep. James (Micah) Van Huss | (615) 741-1717 | rep.micah.vanhuss@capitol.tn.gov
- Rep. Jason Zachary | (615) 741-2264 | rep.jason.zachary@capitol.tn.gov
- Rep. Jerome Moon | (615) 741-5481 | rep.jerome.moon@capitol.tn.gov
- Rep. Joe Pitts | (615) 741-2043 | rep.joe.pitts@capitol.tn.gov
- Rep. Joe Towns Jr. | (615) 741-2189 | rep.joe.towns@capitol.tn.gov
- Rep. Judd Metheny | (615) 741-7448 | rep.judd.matheny@capitol.tn.gov
- Rep. Kelly Keisling | (615) 741-6852 | rep.kelly.keisling@capitol.tn.gov
- Rep. Kevin Brooks | (615) 741-1350 | rep.kevin.brooks@capitol.tn.gov
- Rep. Kevin Vaughan | (615) 741-1866 | rep.kevin.vaughan@capitol.tn.gov
- Rep. Michael G. Curcio | (615) 741-3513 | rep.michael.curcio@capitol.tn.gov
- Rep. Mike Sparks | (615) 741-6829 | rep.mike.sparks@capitol.tn.gov
- Rep. Ron M. Gant | (615) 741-6890 | rep.ron.gant@capitol.tn.gov
- Rep. Ron Travis | (615) 741-1450 | rep.ron.travis@capitol.tn.gov
- Rep. Timothy Hill | (615) 741-2050 | rep.timothy.hill@capitol.tn.gov
- Rep. Tim Rudd | (615) 741-2804 | rep.tim.rudd@capitol.tn.gov