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2022 Regular Session

Senate Bill 415

AN ACT CONCERNING STEP THERAPY, ADVERSE DETERMINATION AND UTILIZATION REVIEWS.

Did not become law. It stopped in the Senate's Insurance and Real Estate Committee on March 11, 2022. The 2022 session has ended.

What it does

The synopsis the General Assembly published with the bill.

To (1) prohibit certain health carriers from requiring the use of step therapy for drugs prescribed to treat behavioral health conditions or chronic, disabling or life-threatening conditions or diseases; (2) redefine "clinical peer" for the purposes of adverse determination and utilization reviews; (3) require health carriers to bear the burden of proving that certain health care services under adverse determination or utilization review are not medically necessary; and (4) require health carriers to provide certain clinical peers with authority to reverse initial adverse determinations.

Sponsors

Who carried the bill in each chamber, and who signed on. Each name leads to the member's page.

In the Senate

2 co-sponsors

Martin M. Looney, Saud Anwar

Its course

March 10 to March 11, 2022, on one scale. In the top row each mark is a day something happened; taller marks are busier days.

Each committee stop sits inside its chamber.

Every action2 actions on 2 days

In the SenateMar 10 to Mar 11 · stopped1 day

Insurance and Real Estate CommitteeMar 10 to Mar 11 · stopped1 day

Text

Each version as the General Assembly printed it.

l9n doesn't hold this bill's text yet.

What happened

In l9n's words, one line for each step. Every action as the General Assembly published it is below.

In the Senate Mar 10 – Mar 11

  1. Introduced and sent to Insurance and Real Estate Committee
  2. Heard in Insurance and Real Estate Committee
All 2 actions, as published