MN SF3400

Pharmacy benefit managers and health carriers are prohibited from requiring or preferring specific pharmacies or providers for prescribing or dispensing reference biological products, biosimilar products, or interchangeable biological products.

If a pharmacy benefit manager or health carrier covers any one of these three product types, it must provide equivalent coverage for all three types.

Patients cannot be required to switch from a prescribed biological product to a different product with a higher retail price.

Defines "biosimilar product" as a biological product the FDA has licensed and determined to be biosimilar or therapeutically equivalent under federal law.

Requires medical assistance and MinnesotaCare drug coverage and reimbursement to comply with the biological products choice provisions.