Bill Text: TX HB3687 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the closed formulary for workers' compensation pharmaceutical benefits.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-04-13 - No action taken in committee [HB3687 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB3687-Introduced.html
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| By: Perry | H.B. No. 3687 | |
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| relating to the closed formulary for workers' compensation | ||
| pharmaceutical benefits. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 408.028, Labor Code, is amended by | ||
| adding Subsection (b-1) to read as follows: | ||
| (b-1) The commissioner shall adopt rules allowing the | ||
| compounding of any drug formulation that incorporates any drug or | ||
| combination of drugs contained in the closed formulary, regardless | ||
| of the form in which the drug or drugs are approved in the | ||
| formulary, to be eligible for reimbursement if: | ||
| (1) a health care practitioner directs that the | ||
| compounded drug formulation be dispensed to the patient under a | ||
| prescription as an oral, parenteral, rectal, vaginal, buccal, | ||
| transdermal, topical, or inhalant medication; and | ||
| (2) a commercially available version of the compounded | ||
| drug formulation is not available in the form and concentration | ||
| prescribed by the health care practitioner. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011. | ||
