FL S1662

Prohibits employers and carriers from refusing to authorize a health care provider to treat an injured employee solely because the provider is also a dispensing practitioner.

Allows health care providers who are dispensing practitioners to dispense and fill prescriptions if authorized by the employer or carrier, and prohibits the Department of Financial Services, employers, or carriers from requiring use of a specific pharmacy or dispensing practitioner.

Sets reimbursement for prescription medications at average wholesale price plus $4.18 dispensing fee, unless a carrier and provider have a direct contract for a lower amount.

Requires providers to give a $15 credit to the carrier or self-insured employer for each repackaged or relabeled prescription costing more than $25, with the Department of Financial Services recalculating the rebate amount every 2 years beginning July 1, 2015.

Prohibits physicians and their assignees from holding ownership interest in licensed pharmaceutical repackaging entities or setting repackaged pharmaceutical average wholesale prices.