Bill Text: TX SB1754 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the closed formulary for workers' compensation pharmaceutical benefits.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-03-23 - Referred to State Affairs [SB1754 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-SB1754-Introduced.html
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By: Van de Putte | S.B. No. 1754 |
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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. |