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Ark. Code Ann. § 23-79-159: Notification of drug formulary changes
Where this section sits in the code
- AR Code
- Title 23
- Chapter 79
- Subchapter 1
(a) (1) A health benefit plan that provides prescription drug coverage or contracts with a third party for prescription drug services with tiered copayments shall notify an enrollee presently taking a prescription drug, in writing or electronically at the request of the enrollee, at least sixty (60) days before an increase in the enrollee's financial responsibility as a result of a modification by the health benefit plan to the health benefit plan's drug formulary. (2) Subdivision (a)(1) of this section does not apply to a generic substitution for a prescription drug. (b) This section does not apply to coverage for a drug that is determined by a pharmacy and a therapeutics committee to be subject to new safety warnings. Added by Act 2013, No. 1260,§ 1, eff. 1/1/2014.
(a) (1) A health benefit plan that provides prescription drug coverage or contracts with a third party for prescription drug services with tiered copayments shall notify an enrollee presently taking a prescription drug, in writing or electronically at the request of the enrollee, at least sixty (60) days before an increase in the enrollee's financial responsibility as a result of a modification by the health benefit plan to the health benefit plan's drug formulary. (2) Subdivision (a)(1) of this section does not apply to a generic substitution for a prescription drug.
(1) A health benefit plan that provides prescription drug coverage or contracts with a third party for prescription drug services with tiered copayments shall notify an enrollee presently taking a prescription drug, in writing or electronically at the request of the enrollee, at least sixty (60) days before an increase in the enrollee's financial responsibility as a result of a modification by the health benefit plan to the health benefit plan's drug formulary.
(2) Subdivision (a)(1) of this section does not apply to a generic substitution for a prescription drug.
(b) This section does not apply to coverage for a drug that is determined by a pharmacy and a therapeutics committee to be subject to new safety warnings.
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