2010 Tennessee Code
Title 56 - Insurance
Chapter 7 - Policies and Policyholders
Part 1 - General Provisions
56-7-117 - Required use of mail-order pharmacy prohibited.
56-7-117. Required use of mail-order pharmacy prohibited.
(a) No group medical benefit contract issued by an insurance company, a hospital service corporation, a hospital and medical service corporation, a medical service corporation, a health maintenance organization or a health care center, that provides coverage for prescription drugs, may require any person covered under the contract to obtain prescription drugs from a mail-order pharmacy in order to obtain benefits for the drugs, or to pay an additional fee or be subjected to any other penalty for failing to utilize any mail-order pharmacy designated by the insurance company or other issuing organization.
(b) The commissioner is authorized to promulgate regulations to implement and enforce this section.
[Acts 1990, ch. 836, §§ 1, 2.]
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