The Following Statements Describe Various State Benefit Mandates

question 15

Multiple Choice

The following statements describe various state benefit mandates. Select the answer choice that describes a state law pertaining to off-label uses for drugs.

• A) State A mandates that health plans provide benefits for experimental drugs for the treatment of terminal diseases such as AIDS and cancer.
• B) State B mandates that health plans have a procedure in place to allow a patient to have a nonformulary drug covered under certain conditions.
• C) State C mandates that, in dispensing generic drugs, pharmacies must label drug containers with the name of the substituted generic medication.
• D) State D mandates that health plans provide benefits for the treatment of one form of cancer with specific drugs that had originally been approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to treat other forms of cancer.

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