Illinois Becomes First State to Require Insurance Companies to Cover EpiPen Injectors for Children

A pharmacist holds a package of EpiPens epinephrine auto-injector, a Mylan product, in Sacramento, Calif. on July 8, 2016. Rich Pedroncelli/AP Photo

Illinois became the first state in the nation to require insurance companies to pay for EpiPen injectors for children after Gov. JB Pritzker signed a bill into law.

House Bill 3435, which takes effect on Jan. 1, 2020, “provides that a policy of accident and health insurance or a managed care plan shall provide coverage for epinephrine injectors for persons 18 years of age or under.”