Bringing Transparency and Access to Drug Formularies
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A panel of experts will convene at
The seminar is designed to educate health care advocates, providers and consumers about insurance plan options, and provide tools for more transparency to help patients select the plan that best meets their health and budget needs.
The seminar will be from
"Patients should be focusing on their health, not on sorting through packets of insurance paperwork," Torres said. "We need a simpler way to know what plans cover which prescription drugs and at what cost. This bill will facilitate this process by allowing patients to more easily identify which plans cover their prescription drug needs, then be able to make apples to apples comparisons between those plans."
SB 1052 would require a health care service plan or health insurer that provides prescription drug benefits to post those formularies on its Internet website and update that posting monthly. The bill will require the
Click here (http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml) for the full text of SB 1052. More information visit: www.senate.ca.gov/torres.
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