HB 5859 – Connecticut
Introduced: 2019 Status: Inactive / Dead
To prohibit certain health carriers from requiring the use of step therapy for certain covered prescription drugs that are prescribed to treat cancer.
HB 6113 – Connecticut
Introduced: 2023 Status: Inactive / Dead
To provide that health carriers delivering, issuing, renewing, amending or continuing certain individual and group health insurance policies and contracts in this state shall not require the use of step therapy for prescription drugs prescribed …
HB 6218 – Rhode Island
Introduced: 2023 Status: In Process
Defines step therapy and prohibit certain groups and agreements from requiring prior authorization or a step therapy protocol when prescribing certain medications.
HB 63 – Georgia
Introduced: 2019 Status: Enacted Year Enacted: 2019
Insurance; health benefit plans to establish step therapy protocols; require: A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 24 of Title 33 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to insurance generally, …
HB 657 – New Hampshire
Introduced: 2019 Status: Enacted
Relative to prescription drugs under the managed care law. This bill clarifies the law regarding prescription drugs under the managed care law.
HB 6622 – Connecticut
Introduced: 2021 Status: Enacted
AN ACT CONCERNING PRESCRIPTION DRUG FORMULARIES AND LISTS OF COVERED DRUGS. To limit the circumstances in which a health carrier may remove a prescription drug from a drug formulary or list of covered drugs, or …
HB 664 – Maryland
Introduced: 2020 Status: Inactive / Dead
Pharmacists – Required Notification and Authorized Substitution – Lower-Costing Drugs, Medical Devices, and Biological Products. Requiring a pharmacist or a pharmacist’s designee who is under certain supervision to inform a certain consumer of the availability …
HB 675 (see companion bill SB 621) – Maryland
Introduced: 2022 Status: Inactive / Dead
This bill prohibits an insurer, nonprofit health service plan, or health maintenance organization (collectively known as carriers) from changing the coverage of services or benefits provided under a health insurance policy or contract during the …
HB 6831 – Connecticut
Introduced: 2023 Status: Inactive / Dead
To (1) allow providers to override step therapy for certain mental health conditions, and (2) establish a task force to study data collection efforts regarding step therapy.
HB 72 – Ohio
Introduced: 2017 Status: Inactive / Dead
Adopt requirements for step therapy protocols: Adopts requirements related to step therapy protocols implemented by health plan issuers and the Department of Medicaid.
HB 785 (see companion bill SB 515) – Maryland
Introduced: 2023 Status: Enacted
Requiring certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations to establish a certain process for requesting an exception to a step therapy or fail-first protocol; prohibiting certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and …
HB 831 – Florida
Introduced: 2019 Status: Enacted
Requiring certain health care practitioners to electronically generate and transmit prescriptions for medicinal drugs upon license renewal or by a specified date; authorizing the Department of Health, in consultation with the Board of Medicine, the …
HB 873 – Georgia
Introduced: 2018 Status: Inactive / Dead
PRESCRIPTION DRUG BENEFITS FREEDOM OF INFORMATION AND CONSUMER PROTECTION ACT: Requiring an amendment to Title 33 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to insurance, so as to provide for consumer protections and freedom …
HB 939 – Texas
Introduced: 2021 Status: Inactive / Dead
Relating to required access to care and provider network provisions in a contract between the Health and Human Services Commission and a Medicaid managed care organization.
HB 963 (see companion bill SB 818) – Florida
Introduced: 2023 Status: Inactive / Dead
Authorizes certain licensed pharmacists to screen for HIV exposure & order & dispense HIV infection prevention drugs in accordance with certain written supervisory protocol or statewide drug therapy protocol; requires Board of Pharmacy, in consultation …
HF 1060 (see companion bill SF 934) – Minnesota
Introduced: 2016 Status: Inactive / Dead
PRESCRIPTION DRUG TRANSPARENCY AND MANAGEMENT: would require health plan companies that provide drug benefit coverage and use a formulary to make its formulary and related benefit information available by electronic means, and upon request, in …