CHAPTER 202
SB 308 – FINAL VERSION
03/24/10 1123s
2010 SESSION
01/10
SENATE BILL 308
AN ACT relative to the price for filling prescriptions.
SPONSORS: Sen. Gilmour, Dist 12
COMMITTEE: Commerce, Labor and Consumer Protection
Under this bill, once a pharmacy benefits manager or insurer determines how much it will pay to the pharmacy for a prescription, the amount may not be lowered.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
03/24/10 1123s
10-2732
01/10
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Ten
AN ACT relative to the price for filling prescriptions.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
202:1 Price of Filling Prescriptions; Payment to Contracted Pharmacy. Amend RSA 318:47-h to read as follows:
318:47-h Price of Filling Prescriptions.
I. 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.
II. Once it has settled a claim for filling a prescription for an enrollee or insured person and notified the pharmacy of the amount the pharmacy benefits manager or insurer will pay to the pharmacy for that prescription, the pharmacy benefits manager or insurer shall not lower the amount to be paid to the pharmacy by the pharmacy benefits manager or the insurer for such settled claim; provided, however, that this paragraph shall not apply if the claim was submitted fraudulently or with inaccurate or misrepresented information.
202:2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.
Approved: June 22, 2010
Effective Date: August 21, 2010