A bill to amend the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to require a group health plan or health insurance coverage offered in connection with such a plan to provide an exceptions process for any medication step therapy protocol, and for other purposes.

This bill would change federal rules for employer-sponsored health insurance plans to require them to offer a way for people to request exceptions to step therapy requirements, which are rules that make patients try certain medications first before their insurance will cover other ones. No official summary is available for this bill.

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