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SB 933 Health insurance; contracts with pharmacies and pharmacists, etc.
Introduced by: Richard L. Saslaw | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED SENATE: (all summaries)
Pharmacists and pharmacy practices. Provides that no provider contract between a health carrier or its pharmacy benefits manager and a pharmacy or its contracting agent shall contain a provision (i) authorizing the carrier or its pharmacy benefits manager to charge, (ii) requiring the pharmacy or pharmacist to collect, or (iii) requiring an enrollee to make, a copayment for a covered prescription drug in an amount that exceeds the least of the applicable copayment for the prescription drug that would be payable in the absence of this section or the cash price the enrollee would pay for the prescription drug if the enrollee purchased the prescription drug without using the enrollee's health plan. The measure requires provider contracts between a health carrier or its pharmacy benefits manager and a pharmacy or its contracting agent to contain specific provisions that allow a pharmacy to (a) disclose to an enrollee information relating to the provisions of this section and the availability of a more affordable therapeutically equivalent prescription drug; (b) sell a more affordable therapeutically equivalent prescription drug to an enrollee if one is available; and (c) offer and provide direct and limited delivery services to an enrollee as an ancillary service of the pharmacy. The measure applies to provider contracts entered into, amended, extended, or renewed on or after January 1, 2019. This bill is identical to HB 1177.
FULL TEXT
- 01/19/18 Senate: Presented and ordered printed 18104784D pdf | impact statement
- 02/07/18 Senate: Committee substitute printed 18106912D-S1 pdf | impact statement
- 02/27/18 Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB933ER) pdf | impact statement
- 03/30/18 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0602) pdf
HISTORY
- 01/19/18 Senate: Presented and ordered printed 18104784D
- 01/19/18 Senate: Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
- 02/07/18 Senate: Reported from Commerce and Labor with substitute (14-Y 0-N)
- 02/07/18 Senate: Committee substitute printed 18106912D-S1
- 02/09/18 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
- 02/12/18 Senate: Read second time
- 02/12/18 Senate: Reading of substitute waived
- 02/12/18 Senate: Committee substitute agreed to 18106912D-S1
- 02/12/18 Senate: Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB933S1
- 02/12/18 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/12/18 Senate: Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/15/18 House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/15/18 House: Read first time
- 02/15/18 House: Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
- 02/20/18 House: Reported from Commerce and Labor (22-Y 0-N)
- 02/22/18 House: Read second time
- 02/23/18 House: Read third time
- 02/23/18 House: Passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N)
- 02/23/18 House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (98-Y 0-N)
- 02/27/18 Senate: Enrolled
- 02/27/18 Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB933ER)
- 02/27/18 House: Signed by Speaker
- 03/02/18 Senate: Signed by President
- 03/05/18 Senate: Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 5, 2018
- 03/05/18 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, April 9, 2018
- 03/30/18 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 602 (effective 7/1/18)
- 03/30/18 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0602)