"For MassHealth the answer is ‘No,’ " Alec
Loftus, communications director at the Massachusetts Department of
Public Health, tells the Phoenix. "Nothing in the law requires
any health-insurance provider, or any government agency or authority, to
reimburse any person for the expenses of the medical use of marijuana."
So
MassHealth won’t cover it. Will other insurance plans? "We have had
reports of patients being reimbursed by their health-insurance
companies," says Kris Hermes, spokesperson with Americans for Safe
Access. "But it’s very rare. I don’t want to give the impression that
insurance companies are regularly reimbursing customers, because that’s
just not the case. Most insurance companies would balk at the idea."
Amanda
Reiman, policy manager for the Drug Policy Alliance’s California
office, says that patients in California can have their
medical-marijuana expenses apply toward their Medi-Cal deductible
