Year: 2009
Resolution Number: 92
Action Taken: Disapproved
Status:
Author(s): Jayne E. Courts, MD
Sponsor: Domenic R. Federico, MD
On behalf of: Kent County Delegation
Committee: B (Legislation)
Resolved Section(s):
RESOLVED: That MSMS request the insurance commission to deny insurance companies the right to eliminate coverage for a class of drugs.REFERENCE COMMITTEE RATIONALE: The Committee acknowledges that insurance companies may make business decisions that do not provide physicians with the full compliment of pharmaceutical options. Furthermore, the Committee agrees that these policies may not be in the interest of patients to have overly restrictive formularies. However, this resolution takes a very broad approach to address this problem. This resolution, as written, would prohibit Catholic institutions from purchasing insurance that does not provide coverage for contraceptives. Additionally, insurers would be required to have at least one drug offered to cover erectile dysfunction. The Committee concluded that the language of the resolution was simply too broad to support.
RESOLVED: That MSMS request the insurance commission to deny insurance companies the right to eliminate coverage for a class of drugs.REFERENCE COMMITTEE RATIONALE: The Committee acknowledges that insurance companies may make business decisions that do not provide physicians with the full compliment of pharmaceutical options. Furthermore, the Committee agrees that these policies may not be in the interest of patients to have overly restrictive formularies. However, this resolution takes a very broad approach to address this problem. This resolution, as written, would prohibit Catholic institutions from purchasing insurance that does not provide coverage for contraceptives. Additionally, insurers would be required to have at least one drug offered to cover erectile dysfunction. The Committee concluded that the language of the resolution was simply too broad to support.
Fiscal Note: NULL
Resolution: View PDF for Coverage for Therapeutically Equivalent Drugs