FIRST REGULAR SESSION

SENATE BILL NO. 194

91ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY


INTRODUCED BY SENATORS SCHNEIDER AND BLAND.

Pre-filed December 14, 2000, and 1,000 copies ordered printed.



TERRY L. SPIELER, Secretary.

0793S.01I


AN ACT

To amend chapter 376, RSMo, by adding thereto one new section relating to 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 376.815, to read as follows:

376.815.  No health carrier, as defined in section 376.1350, shall change its drug formulary except pursuant to a United States Department of Health and Human Services Food and Drug Administration recommendation or at the beginning of each policy annual anniversary date.  A health carrier, however, may add new prescription drugs to its formulary during such period.  No health carrier shall increase an enrollee's co-payment, co-insurance or other out-of-pocket expense for formulary drugs except at the beginning of each policy annual anniversary date.



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