H.R.2163: 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) an otherwise required treatment has been ineffective, (2) such treatment is...

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March 23, 2021
Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
March 23, 2021

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

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