HB640 Alabama 2010 Session

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

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.