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2024 SESSION
24-3094.0
09/10
SENATE BILL [bill number]
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ANALYSIS
This bill prohibits a health insurance issuer, pharmacy benefit manager, other third-party payer, or its agent from discriminating against an entity that participates in the federal 340B Drug Pricing Program based on the entity's participation in the program or that the drug is a drug covered by the program.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
24-3094.0
09/10
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Four
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 New Section; Accident and Health Insurance; Participation in the Federal 340B Drug Pricing Program. Amend RSA 415 by inserting after section 15 the following new section:
415:15-a Discrimination Based on Participation in the Federal 340B Drug Pricing Program. Within the state of New Hampshire, for the reimbursement to covered entities enrolled in or eligible for the federal 340B Drug Pricing Program for covered drugs, as set forth in 42 U.S.C. section 256b, a health insurance issuer, pharmacy benefit manager, other third-party payer, or its agent, shall not impose any terms or conditions, including restrictions or requirements regarding participation in standard or preferred pharmacy networks, on a covered entity that differs from such terms or conditions that apply to any other entity on the basis that the entity participates in the federal 340B Drug Pricing Program or that the drug is a covered drug.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.