HB1230 (2008) Detail

Requiring pharmacists to charge an insured person the usual and customary price or the copayment, whichever is less, of filling a prescription.


CHAPTER 29

HB 1230 – FINAL VERSION

2008 SESSION

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HOUSE BILL 1230

AN ACT requiring pharmacists to charge an insured person the usual and customary price or the copayment, whichever is less, of filling a prescription.

SPONSORS: Rep. Rosenwald, Hills 22; Rep. Harding, Graf 11; Rep. McLeod, Graf 2; Sen. Estabrook, Dist 21

COMMITTEE: Commerce

ANALYSIS

This bill requires pharmacists to charge an insured person the usual and customary price or the copayment, whichever is less, of filling a prescription.

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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.

Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]

Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

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STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Eight

AN ACT requiring pharmacists to charge an insured person the usual and customary price or the copayment, whichever is less, of filling a prescription.

Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:

29:1 New Section; Price of Filling Prescriptions. Amend RSA 318 by inserting after section 47-g the following new section:

318:47-h Price of Filling Prescriptions. A pharmacy benefits manager or insurer shall require a contracted pharmacy to charge an enrollee or insured person the pharmacy’s usual and customary price of filling the prescription or the contracted copayment, whichever is less.

29:2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect January 1, 2009.

Approved: May 12, 2008

Effective Date: January 1, 2009