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| 3 | 3 | LCO No. 1178 1 of 1 | |
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| 5 | 5 | General Assembly Proposed Bill No. 86 | |
| 6 | 6 | January Session, 2019 | |
| 7 | 7 | LCO No. 1178 | |
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| 10 | 10 | Referred to Committee on INSURANCE AND REAL ESTATE | |
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| 13 | 13 | Introduced by: | |
| 14 | 14 | SEN. SOMERS, 18th Dist. | |
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| 18 | 18 | AN ACT LIMITING CHANGES TO HEALTH INSURERS' | |
| 19 | 19 | PRESCRIPTION DRUG FORMULARIES. | |
| 20 | 20 | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General | |
| 21 | 21 | Assembly convened: | |
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| 23 | 23 | That sections 38a-492f and 38a-518f of the general statutes be 1 | |
| 24 | 24 | amended to provide that no health carrier that includes prescription 2 | |
| 25 | 25 | drug coverage shall remove a covered prescription drug from its list of 3 | |
| 26 | 26 | covered drugs, or reclassify or place a covered prescription drug in a 4 | |
| 27 | 27 | higher cost-sharing tier, during a policy term unless (1) such drug is 5 | |
| 28 | 28 | not medically necessary, such health carrier provides the insured and 6 | |
| 29 | 29 | the insured's prescribing health care provider with not less than sixty 7 | |
| 30 | 30 | days' advance written notice of its intended action and such provider 8 | |
| 31 | 31 | agrees that such drug is not medically necessary, or (2) such drug is 9 | |
| 32 | 32 | identified as no longer safe and effective by the federal Food and Drug 10 | |
| 33 | 33 | Administration or peer-reviewed medical literature generally 11 | |
| 34 | 34 | recognized by the relevant medical community. 12 | |
| 35 | 35 | Statement of Purpose: | |
| 36 | 36 | To limit when health carriers may change prescription drug | |
| 37 | 37 | formularies during a policy term. |