Sec. 38a-476b. Standards re psychotropic drug availability in health plans.
Sec. 38a-476b. Standards re psychotropic drug availability in health plans.
Notwithstanding any provision of the general statutes or the regulations of Connecticut
state agencies, no mental health care benefit provided under state law, or with state
funds or to state employees may, through the use of a drug formulary, list of covered
drugs or any other means: (1) Limit the availability of psychotropic drugs that are the
most effective therapeutically indicated pharmaceutical treatment with the least probability of adverse side effects; or (2) require utilization of psychotropic drugs that are
not the most effective therapeutically indicated pharmaceutical treatment with the least
probability of adverse side effects. Nothing in this section shall be construed to limit
the authority of a physician to prescribe a drug that is not the most recent pharmaceutical
treatment. Nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit differential copays
among pharmaceutical treatments or to prohibit utilization review.
(P.A. 01-171, S. 17.)