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2000 SESSION
HB 1111 Prescription drug formularies.
Introduced by: John H. Tate, Jr. | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED: (all summaries)
Prescription drug formularies. Requires an insurer, corporation, or health maintenance organization that maintains one or more closed drug formularies to establish a process to allow an enrollee to obtain, without additional cost-sharing beyond that provided for formulary prescription drugs in the enrollee's covered benefits, a specific, medically necessary nonformulary prescription drug when the enrollee has been receiving the specific nonformulary prescription drug for at least six months previous to the development or revision of the formulary and the prescribing physician has determined that the formulary drug is an inappropriate therapy for the specific patient or that changing drug therapy presents a significant health risk to the specific patient. After reasonable investigation and consultation with the prescribing physician, the insurer, corporation or health maintenance organization shall act on such requests within one business day of receipt of the request. Substituting an approved generic drug for its branded equivalent does not constitute a change in drug therapy.
FULL TEXT
- 01/24/00 House: Presented & ordered printed 006014952 pdf
- 02/10/00 House: Printed as engrossed 006014952-E pdf
- 03/16/00 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1111ER) pdf
- 05/03/00 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0873) pdf
AMENDMENTS
HISTORY
- 01/24/00 House: Presented & ordered printed 006014952
- 01/24/00 House: Referred to Committee on Corporations, Insurance and Banking
- 01/28/00 House: Assigned to C. I. B. sub-committee: 3
- 02/08/00 House: Reported from C. I. B. w/amd (24-Y 1-N)
- 02/09/00 House: Read first time
- 02/10/00 House: Read second time
- 02/10/00 House: Committee amendment agreed to
- 02/10/00 House: Engrossed by House as amended
- 02/10/00 House: Printed as engrossed 006014952-E
- 02/11/00 House: Read third time and passed House (97-Y 0-N)
- 02/11/00 House: VOTE: PASSAGE (97-Y 0-N 1-A)
- 02/11/00 House: Communicated to Senate
- 02/14/00 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 02/14/00 Senate: Referred to Committee on Education and Health
- 03/02/00 Senate: Reported from Education and Health (13-Y 0-N 1-A)
- 03/03/00 Senate: Const. reading disp., passed by for the day (39-Y 0-N)
- 03/03/00 Senate: VOTE: CONST. RDG. DISPENSED R (39-Y 0-N)
- 03/06/00 Senate: Read third time
- 03/06/00 Senate: Passed Senate (38-Y 0-N 1-A)
- 03/06/00 Senate: VOTE: PASSAGE (38-Y 0-N 1-A)
- 03/16/00 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1111ER)
- 03/20/00 House: Enrolled
- 03/20/00 House: Signed by Speaker
- 03/22/00 Senate: Signed by President
- 04/09/00 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 873 (effective 7/1/00)
- 05/03/00 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0873)