Oklahoma’s Insurance Commissioner, in a statement released by his department today, wants people to know they might have gotten some bad information from their employer about their CVS/Caremark drug program.
In what he calls the most troubling inaccuracy, Commissioner Glen Mulready says his office got word that large employers in Oklahoma had sent out letters to their workers, saying that state law no longer allows for 90-day prescriptions.
He says that’s not correct and that the state law in question, HB2632 (which created the Patient’s Right to Pharmacy Choice Act), does in fact let people get a 90-day supply filled.
He says some letters also claimed that the Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner would begin enforcing HB2632 on February 23, 2023.
It’s not clear from the Commission’s news release what caused the confusion, but he’s urging employers to verify the accuracy of their information, before sending it to their employees.
His statement points out that the Oklahoma Insurance Department has been enforcing this law since September 2020.
He says HB2632 did make it illegal to incentivize patients to fill prescriptions through mail-order rather than their pharmacy of choice.