General Assembly Proposed Bill No. 19
January Session, 2021 LCO No. 95
Referred to Committee on INSURANCE AND REAL ESTATE
Introduced by:
SEN. ANWAR, 3rd Dist.
AN ACT CONCERNING HEALTH COVERAGE FOR OUTPATIENT
PSYCHOTROPIC DRUGS.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
1 That title 38a of the general statutes be amended to provide that no
2 health insurance policy providing coverage for outpatient prescription
3 drugs, or mental health care benefits provided under state law, with
4 state funds or to state employees, shall: (1) Require a prescribing health
5 care provider to prescribe an outpatient psychotropic drug in a quantity
6 that the provider deems clinically inappropriate; or (2) if a prescribing
7 health care provider deems a ninety-day supply of a covered outpatient
8 psychotropic drug to be clinically inappropriate, impose a coinsurance,
9 copayment, deductible or other out-of-pocket expense for the prescribed
10 supply of such drug in an amount that exceeds the amount of the
11 coinsurance, copayment, deductible or other out-of-pocket expense for
12 a ninety-day supply of such drug reduced pro rata according to the
13 quantity of the prescribed supply of such drug.
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 Proposed Bill No. 19
Statement of Purpose:
To prohibit health insurance policies providing coverage for outpatient
prescription drugs, and mental health care benefits provided under
state law, with state funds or to state employees, from: (1) Requiring a
prescribing health care provider to prescribe an outpatient psychotropic
drug in a quantity that the provider deems clinically inappropriate; or
(2) imposing increased cost-sharing for less than a ninety-day supply of
a covered outpatient psychotropic drug if a prescribing health care
provider deems a ninety-day supply of such drug to be clinically
inappropriate.
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