Revision: Jan. 12, 2010, midnight
SB 420 – AS INTRODUCED
2010 SESSION
10/09
SENATE BILL 420
AN ACT relative to the use of mail-order pharmacies for prescription drug benefits under accident and health insurance policies and plans.
SPONSORS: Sen. Cilley, Dist 6; Rep. Craig, Hills 9; Rep. Hatch, Coos 3; Rep. S. Price, Straf 3
COMMITTEE: Commerce, Labor and Consumer Protection
This bill requires that insurers providing prescription drug benefits under accident and health insurance policies and plans allow the use of a pharmacy that is not a mail-order pharmacy.
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Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]
Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
10-2737
10/09
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Ten
AN ACT relative to the use of mail-order pharmacies for prescription drug benefits under accident and health insurance policies and plans.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 New Section; Standards for Accident and Health Insurance; Prescription Drug Benefits; Mail-Order Pharmacies. Amend RSA 415-A by inserting after section 5-a the following new section:
415-A:5-b Prescription Drug Benefits; Mail-Order Pharmacies.
I. Consistent with a patient’s right to choose a pharmacy, all insurers that provide prescription drug benefits shall include in such prescription drug benefits the right of the insured and prospective enrollee to use a pharmacy that is not a mail-order pharmacy.
II. Insurers may offer to insureds and prospective enrollees the option of using a mail-order pharmacy, provided:
(a) Insureds and prospective enrollees need not take any action of any type to maintain the right to use a pharmacy that is not a mail-order pharmacy; and
(b) Such option does not interfere with the right to use a pharmacy that is not a mail-order pharmacy.
III. In this section:
(a) “Pharmacy” means pharmacy as defined in RSA 318:1, XI.
(b) “Mail-order pharmacy” means mail-order pharmacy as defined in RSA 318:1, VII-b.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.