H.R.2279: Safe Step Act

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Safe Step Act This bill requires a group health plan to establish an exception to medication step-therapy protocol in specified cases. A medication step-therapy protocol establishes a specific sequence in which prescription drugs are covered by a group health plan or a health insurance issuer.  A request for such an exception to the protocol must be granted if (1) the treatment is expected to be ineffective, (2) the treatment will cause or is...

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April 10, 2019
Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
April 10, 2019

Introduced in the House by Raul Ruiz (D-Calif.)

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