SB161 Alabama 2025 Session

Summary

Primary Sponsor

Andrew Jones Senator

Republican

Session

2025 Regular Session

Title

Medicaid; establishing coverage parity between opioid and nonopioid pain medications.

Description

Under existing law, drugs covered under the Medicaid program are reviewed by a Medicaid Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee for approval on a preferred drug list.

This bill would require that pain medications that are not opioids or narcotics and that receive approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration be included on the preferred drug list on terms of coverage that are no less restrictive than those given to opioid pain medications on the list.

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Subjects

Insurance