Bill Text: TX SB1458 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to a prior authorization requirement for certain prescription eye drops and related medications.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-03-20 - Referred to Business & Commerce [SB1458 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-SB1458-Introduced.html
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| By: Buckingham | S.B. No. 1458 | |
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| relating to a prior authorization requirement for certain | ||
| prescription eye drops and related medications. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 1369, Insurance Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 1369.006 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 1369.006. PRIOR AUTHORIZATION OF CERTAIN PRESCRIPTION | ||
| DRUGS PROHIBITED. A health benefit plan that covers prescription | ||
| eye drops or other topical medications used to treat a disease or | ||
| condition of the eye or adnexa may not require that an enrollee | ||
| receive prior authorization for the eye drops or other topical | ||
| medications. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 1369.006, Insurance Code, as added by | ||
| this Act, applies only to a health benefit plan delivered, issued | ||
| for delivery, or renewed on or after January 1, 2018. A health | ||
| benefit plan delivered, issued for delivery, or renewed before | ||
| January 1, 2018, is governed by the law as it existed immediately | ||
| before the effective date of this Act, and that law is continued in | ||
| effect for that purpose. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. | ||
