Virginia should require health insurers to cover medications that prevent opioid overdoses, the General Assembly‘s Joint Commission on Health Care says.
The commission, which makes recommendations for legislation to the General Assembly, voted unanimously on Wednesday to support a measure directing health insurers to cover at least one nasal spray that stops and reverses overdoses.
The measure would also say insurers could not require a co-payment for that medication.
Read the full story in the Richmond Times-Dispatch.
