Legislative Session number- 84

Bill Name: SF0982

Requiring and providing for certification of pharmacy benefits managers by the
commissioner of health, defining pharmacy benefits manager and specifying
certain certificate of authority application requirements; requiring the
disclosure of financial and utilization information and arrangements relating to
prescription drug purchasing to the commissioner and the attorney general;
regulating the dispensation of substitute prescription drugs, requiring pharmacy
benefits managers to obtain approval of the prescribing health professional and
to disclose to the covered individual and entity the cost of both drugs and
benefits or payments accruing to the manager as a result of the substitution;
requiring and providing for commissioner enforcement, requiring
suspension or
revocation of the authority of pharmacy benefits managers for violation;
authorizing attorney general pursuit of penalties and remedies and covered
entity civil actions; requiring commissioner issuance and enforcement rules
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