Bill Text: CT SB00021 | 2015 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: An Act Requiring The Insurance Commissioner To Study Opioid Analgesics.

Spectrum: Committee Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-05-30 - Referred by Senate to Committee on Appropriations [SB00021 Detail]

Download: Connecticut-2015-SB00021-Introduced.html

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General Assembly		Proposed Bill No. 21
January Session, 2015		LCO No. 361
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Referred to Committee on INSURANCE AND REAL ESTATE
Introduced by:
SEN. CRISCO, 17th Dist.

AN ACT CONCERNING HEALTH INSURANCE COVERAGE OF ABUSE-DETERRENT OPIOID ANALGESICS.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:

That title 38a of the general statutes be amended to require health insurance policies that provide coverage for prescription drugs to provide coverage for abuse-deterrent opioid analgesics on a basis no less favorable than for covered nonabuse-deterrent opioid analgesics.

Statement of Purpose:

To require health insurance policies that provide coverage for prescription drugs to provide coverage for abuse-deterrent opioid analgesics on a basis no less favorable than for covered nonabuse-deterrent opioid analgesics.