Bill Text: MN HF1269 | 2013-2014 | 88th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Discriminatory cost-sharing policies for prescription drugs prohibited.

Sponsorship: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-2)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-03-05 - Introduction and first reading, referred to Commerce and Consumer Protection Finance and Policy [HF1269 Detail]

Download: Minnesota-2013-HF1269-Introduced.html

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A bill for an act

relating to insurance; prohibiting certain discriminatory cost-sharing policies
for prescription drugs;proposing coding for new law in Minnesota Statutes,
chapter 62Q.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

    Section 1. [62Q.526] PRESCRIPTION DRUG PRICING; PROHIBITION ON
HEALTH PLAN IMPOSITION OF HIGHER COST-SHARING FOR CERTAIN
DRUGS.
No health plan company shall offer, issue, sell, or renew a health plan that imposes
cost-sharing, deductibles, co-payments, or co-insurance on any prescription drug that
exceeds the cost-sharing, deductibles, co-payments, or co-insurance imposed under the
health plan for nonpreferred or nonformulary brand name prescription drugs.
EFFECTIVE DATE.This section is effective August 1, 2013, and applies to health
plans offered, issued, sold, or renewed on or after that date.