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04, 2022
4
03, 2022
14
01, 2022
HB 135
Requires health insuring corporations and sickness and accident insurers to apply amounts paid by or on behalf of covered individuals toward cost-sharing requirements. Exempts situations where a generic version of a brand name drug exists, but the prescribing physician prescribes the brand name drug without it being medically necessary.
14
01, 2022
SB 150
Prohibits an employer of physicians from requiring a current or prospective physician employee to enter into a post-employment noncompete agreement as a condition of employment. Allows a current or prospective physician employee to sue an employer that violates the prohibition for damages and attorney’s fees and costs.
14
01, 2022
HB 153
Prohibits health insurers from taking certain actions with respect to drugs during a health benefit plan year, including increasing cost-sharing, reducing coverage, and removing drugs from plan formularies.
14
01, 2022
SB 220
Prohibits a health plan issuer from imposing cost-sharing on a prescription insulin drug in an amount that exceeds $35 for a 30-day supply.
14
01, 2022
SB 253
To establish and operate the Ohio Health Care Plan to provide universal health care coverage to all Ohio residents.
14
01, 2022
HB 305
Prohibits a health plan issuer from imposing cost-sharing on a prescription insulin drug in an amount that exceeds $35 for a 30-day supply.
14
01, 2022
HB 336
Prohibits a health plan issuer from taking certain actions that would favor the issuer’s affiliated pharmacies or would result in a covered person being required to use an affiliated pharmacy or restricted from using an unaffiliated but in-network pharmacy. Prohibits a health plan issuer from preventing a pharmacy from joining the issuer’s network if the pharmacy agrees to reasonable terms of the issuer’s pharmacy provider contract and is otherwise in compliance with the law. Requires each contract between a health plan issuer and a pharmacy to include a system by which the pharmacy can [...]
14
01, 2022
HB 446
The bill creates the Ohio Health Care Plan, which is charged with providing universal and affordable health care coverage to all Ohio residents, consisting of a comprehensive benefit package that includes benefits for prescription drugs, while simultaneously working to: control health care costs; control health care spending; achieve measurable improvement in health care outcomes; increase all parties’ satisfaction with the health care system; implement policies that strengthen and improve culturally and linguistically sensitive care; and develop an integrated health care database to support health care planning.