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MN HF149
Bill
Status
1/17/2019
Primary Sponsor
Kristin Bahner
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AI Summary
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Amends Minnesota Statutes section 151.214 to require pharmacists to provide patients with co-payment amounts, the pharmacy's usual and customary price, and the amount the pharmacy will be paid for each prescription covered by employer-sponsored or health plans.
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Requires health plans and pharmacy benefit managers to provide pharmacies with necessary data during initial claim adjudication to comply with disclosure requirements.
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Prohibits contractual agreements between health plans, pharmacy benefit managers, and pharmacies from preventing pharmacies from disclosing required pricing information to patients.
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Prohibits health plans and pharmacy benefit managers from contractually preventing pharmacists from informing patients when their health plan co-payment for a drug exceeds the out-of-pocket cost at the pharmacy's usual and customary price.
Legislative Description
Health plan company prohibited from contractually preventing a pharmacist from informing a patient of a price differential.
Last Action
Author added Sanstede
4/3/2019