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HI SB2376
Bill
Status
3/8/2016
Primary Sponsor
Lorraine Inouye
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AI Summary
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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.
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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.
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Requires non-network retail community pharmacies to be reimbursed at $12.50 dispensing fee plus product cost at the higher reimbursement rate.
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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.
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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