HB640 Alabama 2010 Session

Updated Jul 26, 2021

Summary

Primary Sponsor: William “Bill” M. BeasleySenator
Democrat
Co-Sponsors: Tommy Sherer Ron Johnson Elaine Beech
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: Under existing law, a health benefit plan contracts with pharmacies to deliver drug prescriptions to enrollees of the health benefit plan.
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.
Subjects: Insurance

Read for the first time and referred to the House of Representatives committee on Health