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Health care coverage: prescriptions.

It became law on Sep 26, 2018.

CA AB 2863 · Assembly Bill · 2017–2018

Stage
Became law
Started in
Assembly
Sponsors
4
Latest action
Sep 26, 2018

What it does

Existing law, the Knox-Keene Health Care Service Plan Act of 1975, provides for the licensure and regulation of health care service plans by the Department of Managed Health Care, and makes a willful violation of the act a crime. Existing law provides for the regulation of health insurers by the Department of Insurance. Existing law requires a health care service plan or health insurer that covers outpatient prescription drug benefits to provide coverage for specified prescription drugs, and requires cost sharing for outpatient prescription drugs to be reasonable so as to allow access to medically necessary outpatient prescription drugs.

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Where it stands

This bill passed and is now law.

  1. Introduced (Done)

  2. Committee (Done)

  3. Floor (Done)

  4. Law (Done)

    Sep 26, 2018

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Who is involved

Sponsors

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Where it goes next

Once a bill is decided, the questions are about what is done with it in California.

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