Montana legislation · 2025 Regular Session
Montana SB483: Generally revise health care laws
Status: Failed, May 23, 2025
What the bill says
A bill for an act requiring certain protocols for step therapy; providing definitions; providing exceptions; providing rulemaking authority; and amending section 33-32-102, mca.".
From the engrossed text:
A BILL FOR AN ACT REQUIRING CERTAIN PROTOCOLS FOR STEP THERAPY; PROVIDING DEFINITIONS; PROVIDING EXCEPTIONS; PROVIDING RULEMAKING AUTHORITY; AND AMENDING SECTION 33-32-102, MCA." BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MONTANA: Section 1. Section 33-32-102, MCA, is amended to read: "33-32-102. Definitions. As used in this chapter, the following definitions apply: (1) "AB-rated generic equivalent drug" means a prescription drug product that is considered by the United States food and drug administration to be therapeutically equivalent to a particular name-brand prescription drug. (1)(2) "Adverse determination", except as provided in 33-32-402, means: (a) a determination by a health insurance issuer or its designated utilization review organization that, based on the provided information and after application of any utilization review technique, a requested benefit under the health insurance issuer's health plan is denied, reduced, or terminated or that payment is not made in whole or in part for the requested benefit because the requested benefit does not meet the health insurance issuer's requirement for medical necessity, appropriateness, health care setting, level of care, or level of effectiveness or is determined to be experimental or investigational; (b) a denial, reduction, termination, or failure to provide or make payment in whole or in part for a requested benefit based on a determination by a health insurance issuer or its designated utilization …
Sponsors
- Boldman, Ellie (D, 47) · primary sponsor
Latest actions
- : (S) Died in Process
- : (S) Missed Deadline for General Bill Transmittal
- : (S) Fiscal Note Printed
- : (S) Fiscal Note Unsigned
- : (S) Fiscal Note Received
- : (S) Tabled in Committee
- : (S) Hearing
- : (S) Referred to Committee
- : (S) Fiscal Note Requested
- : (S) 1st Reading
Subjects: Rule Making, Insurance, Health Care Services
Common questions
- What is SB483?
- SB483 is a bill in the Montana Legislature (2025 Regular Session): Generally revise health care laws.
- What does SB483 do?
- In its own words: A bill for an act requiring certain protocols for step therapy; providing definitions; providing exceptions; providing rulemaking authority; and amending section 33-32-102, mca.".
- What is the status of SB483?
- Failed as of May 23, 2025. Latest action: (S) Died in Process (May 23, 2025).
- Who sponsored SB483?
- Boldman, Ellie (D, 47).
- Where is the official record for SB483?
- On the Montana Legislature website: https://bills.legmt.gov/#/laws/bill/2/LC3324
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