FIRST REGULAR SESSION
94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVES POLLOCK (Sponsor), FAITH, SATER, NIEVES, FRANZ, WELLS, DENISON AND WILSON (130) (Co-sponsors).
Read 1st time February 1, 2007 and copies ordered printed.
D. ADAM CRUMBLISS, Chief Clerk
AN ACT
To amend chapter 376, RSMo, by adding thereto one new section relating to prescription drug formularies.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:
Section A. Chapter 376, RSMo, is amended by adding thereto one new section, to be known as section 376.392, to read as follows:
376.392. For any health carrier or health benefit plan, as defined in section 376.1350, that provides prescription drug coverage or contracts with a third-party for prescription drug services, the health carrier or health benefit plan shall notify enrollees in writing, or electronically with the permission of the enrollee, at least sixty days prior to the beginning of each new plan year of all additions or deletions in the health carrier's or health benefit plan's prescription drug formulary from the immediately preceding plan year. In addition, each such health carrier and health benefit plan shall, on a quarterly basis, provide enrollees with a detailed list of all changes to the current formulary for each calendar quarter during the plan year in the same manner that the annual update is provided.
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