Bill Text - SB591 (2018)

Relative to accreditation of health care providers by pharmacy benefit managers.


Revision: June 13, 2018, 4:54 p.m.

CHAPTER 236

SB 591-FN - FINAL VERSION

 

02/22/2018   0653s

05/03/2018   1862EBA

 

2018 SESSION

18-2906

01/03

 

SENATE BILL 591-FN

 

AN ACT relative to accreditation of health care providers by pharmacy benefit managers.

 

SPONSORS: Sen. Soucy, Dist 18; Sen. Reagan, Dist 17; Rep. Rosenwald, Hills. 30; Rep. Keans, Straf. 23

 

COMMITTEE: Health and Human Services

 

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AMENDED ANALYSIS

 

This bill prohibits certain practices of pharmacy benefit managers except under certain circumstances until June 30, 2020.

 

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

02/22/2018   0653s

05/03/2018   1862EBA 18-2906

01/03

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Eighteen

 

AN ACT relative to accreditation of health care providers by pharmacy benefit managers.

 

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

 

236:1  New Subparagraph; Managed Care Law; Provider Contracts; Pharmacy Benefit Managers.  Amend RSA 420-J:8, XV by inserting after subparagraph (c) the following new subparagraph:

(d)  A pharmacy benefit manager shall not require accreditation of providers other than requirements set forth by the New Hampshire pharmacy board or other state or federal entity.

236:2  Repeal.  RSA 420-J:8, XV(d), relative to prohibiting pharmacy benefit managers to require providers to obtain certain accreditation, is repealed.

236:3  Contingency.  If HB 1746-FN of the 2018 regular legislative session becomes law, sections 1-2 of this act shall not take effect.  If HB 1746-FN of the regular legislative session does not become law, section 1 of this act shall take effect upon its passage and section 2 of this act shall take effect June 20, 2020.

236:4  Effective Date.  

I.  Sections 1 and 2  of this act shall take effect as provided in section 3 of this act.

II.  The remainder of this act shall take effect upon its passage.

 

Approved: June 08, 2018

Effective Date:

I. Sections 1&2 shall take effect as provided in section 3.

II. Remainder shall take effect June 8, 2018.