§36-6850.1. Notification of deletions in prescription coverage.

36 OK Stat § 36-6850.1 (2019) (N/A)
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Any health benefit plan that provides prescription drug coverage or contracts with a third party for prescription drug services shall notify an enrollee presently taking a prescription drug of any deletions, other than generic substitutions, in the health benefit plan's prescription drug formulary. Such notification shall be made in writing, or electronically upon request of the enrollee, at least sixty (60) days prior.

This section does not apply to coverage for a drug that is determined by a therapeutics committee of the health benefit plan to be subject to new safety warnings or a safety recall by the Federal Drug Administration.

As used in this section, "health benefit plan" means any plan or arrangement as defined in subsection C of Section 6060.4 of Title 36 of the Oklahoma Statutes.

Added by Laws 2013, c. 247, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2013.