Virginia House Bill 131 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: Introduced on December 19 2017 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2018-02-13 - Left in Commerce and Labor
Pending: House Commerce and Labor Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Health insurance; coverage for alternative pain management prescription drugs. Requires health insurers, health maintenance organizations, and corporations providing health care coverage subscription contracts, whose policy, contract, or plan includes coverage for prescription drugs, to provide coverage for alternative pain management prescription drugs that are prescribed to a covered individual with an opioid dependence disorder. "Alternative pain management prescription drugs" are defined as either abuse-deterrent opioid analgesic drugs or non-opioid analgesic drugs. Alternative pain management prescription drugs are required to be on a tier that has cost-sharing requirements that do not exceed those of opioid analgesic drugs. The requirement applies to analgesics prescribed in connection with an acute medical condition but not for a chronic medical condition. The measure applies to policies, contracts, and plans delivered, issued for delivery, or renewed on or after January 1, 2019.

Health insurance; coverage for alternative pain management prescription drugs.

Sen. John Bell [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2018-02-13	House	Left in Commerce and Labor
2018-01-18	House	Subcommittee recommends continuing to 2019 by voice vote
2018-01-17	House	Assigned C & L sub: Subcommittee #1
2017-12-19	House	Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
2017-12-19	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18101286D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
38	2	3418.18	(n/a)	See Bill Text
38	2	4319	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+sum+HB131
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB131+hil