CBSA supports HB23-1130, a bill that aims to help people suffering from a serious mental illness by addressing private payers’ step therapy requirements and Medicaid’s Preferred Drug List review process. These are both “[b]arriers impeding timely access to cutting-edge and physician-recommended psychiatric treatments,” as bill sponsor Representative Dafna Michaelson Jenet explained in an opinion piece in the Denver Post. She is sponsoring the bill along with Assistant Senate Majority Leader Robert Rodriguez. HB23-1130 will be heard in the House Health & Insurance Committee on February 21.
HB23-1130 is a two-part bill that:
(1) would ensure patients diagnosed with a serious mental illness are only required by their health insurance plan to try one prescription drug, as part of a step therapy process, prior to their insurance covering the drug recommended by their provider, and
(2) would require the Colorado Department of Health…
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