Medication abandonment and increasing patient medication adherence; options for reducing rates. (HB1959)

Introduced By

Del. Buddy Fowler (R-Ashland) with support from co-patron Del. Dawn Adams (D-Richmond)

Description

Study; Health Professions Subcommittee of the Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions; options for reducing rates of medication abandonment and increasing patient medication adherence; report. Directs the Health Professions Subcommittee of the Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions to study options for reducing the rates of medication abandonment and increasing patient medication adherence, including the feasibility of permitting health plans and pharmacy benefits managers to make available in real time to enrollees and their health care providers, upon request of such health care provider made at the time a prescription drug is prescribed to an enrollee, information regarding the actual cost and any benefits of the prescription drug and any health insurance coverage related to the prescription drug. Read the Bill »

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