Report Title:
Mental Health Prescription Drugs
Description:
Adds language that prohibits the Department of Human Services from restricting a physician's ability to treat patients with mental illnesses through the use of a restrictive formulary, therapeutic substitution, or preferred drug classification.
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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
H.B. NO. |
103 |
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TWENTY-THIRD LEGISLATURE, 2005 |
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
RELATING TO MENTAL HEALTH prescription drugs.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. Chapter 346, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by adding a new section to be appropriately designated and to read as follows:
"§346- Mental health prescription drugs. (a) The department shall not restrict, by prior or retroactive approval process, restrictive formulary, therapeutic substitution, or preferred drug classification or list, a physician's ability to treat
patients with mental illnesses, including but not limited to schizophrenia, depression, bipolar disorder, and attention deficit hyperactive disorder, with any mental health medications that have been approved and designated as safe by the Food and Drug Administration, and that the physician, in the physician's professional judgment and within the lawful scope of the physician's practice, considers appropriate for the treatment of that patient's mental illness.(b) This section shall apply to the Rx plus program under part XIII and the medicaid prescription drug expansion program under section 346-59.8."
SECTION 2. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
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