§ 58-1-19 — Health benefit plans to issue uniform prescription drug information card--Exception--Director to prescribe format and contents.

Any health benefit plan that provides coverage for prescription drugs or devices on an outpatient basis, or administers such a plan, including third - party administrators for self - insured plans and state - administered plans, shall issue to its primary insured a card or other technology containing uniform prescription drug information. The director of the Division of Insurance shall prescribe the format and elements of information for the uniform prescription drug information card or technology and shall consider the format and elements of information approved by the National Council for Prescription Drug Programs (NCPDP) and the required and conditional or situational fields and the most recent pharmacy identification card or technology implementation guide produced by NCPDP. A health benefit plan is not required to issue a pharmacy identification card separate from another identification card issued to an insured under the health benefit plan if the identification card contains the elements of information required by the Division of Insurance.

Legislative History

SL 2001, ch 266, § 1.