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HI SB2376

Bill

Status

Engrossed

3/8/2016

Primary Sponsor

Lorraine Inouye

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Origin

Senate

2016 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Allows beneficiaries in counties with 3,000+ square miles of land area to use non-network retail community pharmacies if they live 10+ miles from the nearest network pharmacy, provided a non-network pharmacy exists within 10 miles of their residence.

  • Prohibits pharmacy benefit managers and prescription drug plans from imposing higher copayments, quantity limits, refill restrictions, or other administrative requirements on beneficiaries using non-network pharmacies compared to network or mail-order pharmacies.

  • Requires non-network retail community pharmacies to be reimbursed at $12.50 dispensing fee plus product cost at the higher reimbursement rate.

  • Increases maximum fines for pharmacy benefit manager violations from $10,000 to cover violations of the new geographic exemption provisions, with authority for the insurance commissioner to order corrective action and restitution.

  • Requires the insurance commissioner to submit annual reports to the legislature through 2021 regarding the measure's effects on healthcare costs, including impacts to the Hawaii employer-union health benefits trust fund.

Legislative Description

Prescription Drugs Benefits; Non-network Pharmacies; Retail Community Pharmacies; Reimbursement

Last Action

Report adopted. referred to the committee(s) on FIN as amended in HD 2 with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Representative(s) Kawakami, Kong, Oshiro, Tokioka, Tupola, Woodson excused (6).

3/24/2016

Committee Referrals

Finance3/24/2016
Consumer Protection & Commerce3/18/2016
Health3/10/2016
Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health1/25/2016

Full Bill Text

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