Proposed S.B. No. 196
Session Year 2025

AN ACT LIMITING CHANGES TO PRESCRIPTION DRUG FORMULARIES FOR PSYCHIATRIC PRESCRIPTION DRUGS.

To limit the circumstances in which a health carrier may remove a psychiatric prescription drug from such health carrier's drug formulary or list of covered drugs, or move a psychiatric prescription drug to a different cost-sharing tier, during a policy term.

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