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SB308: relative to the price for filling prescriptions.

Bill status: Signed by Governor

Citation
2010 SB308
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Committee
HOUSE Commerce and Consumer Affairs
Hearing
04/15/2010 at 01:30 PM
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Commerce and Consumer Affairs

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CHAPTER 202

SB 308 – FINAL VERSION

03/24/10 1123s

2010 SESSION

10-2732

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

ANALYSIS

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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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