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S12892018 Regular Session

Adds to existing law to provide for transparency for pharmacy benefit managers.

PHARMACIES -- Adds to existing law to provide for transparency for pharmacy benefit managers.

PHARMACIES

STATEMENT OF PURPOSE

Pharmacy Benefits Managers (PBMs) are middlemen that were originally designed to reduce administrative costs for insurers, validate patient eligibility, administer plan benefits, as well as negotiate costs between pharmacies and health plans. Today PBMs have control over almost all aspects of the prescription drug transactions, with the three largest PBMs managing 78 percent of the prescription drug benefit transactions. The purpose of this legislation is to establish a Pharmacy Benefit Manager Transparency Act that includes registration and disclosure of information requirements. In addition, it would establish transparency of the covered prescription drug lists and the methodology that determines how reimbursement to the pharmacies is ultimately calculated.

LATEST ACTION

Reported Printed; referred to Commerce & Human Resources

BILL INFO

Session
2018
Chamber
senate
Status date
Feb 9, 2018

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