HB640 Alabama 2010 Session

Sponsors

Session

Regular Session 2010

Title

Health benefit plans and prescription drugs, same copayment, coinsurance, deductible, and quantity limits within same employer group, drug changes

Description

<p class="bill_description"> Under existing law, a health benefit plan contracts with pharmacies to deliver drug prescriptions to enrollees of the health benefit plan</p><p class="bill_description"> This bill would require a health benefit plan to apply the same coinsurance, copayment, deductible, and quantity limits within the same employer group and other plan-sponsored group to all drug prescriptions, prescriptions filled by a pharmacy provider who participates in the health benefit plan's network, would prohibit a quantity limitation unless uniformly applied, and prohibit a mandated drug change by a health benefit plan</p><p class="bill_entitled_an_act"> Relating to health benefit plans and delivering of prescriptions drugs; to require the same copayment, coinsurance, deductible and quantity limits within the same employer group and other plan-sponsored group to be applied to all drug prescriptions filled by a pharmacy provider under certain circumstances; and to further provide for certain conditions or quantities and changes in prescription drug orders. </p>

Subjects

Insurance