Indiana Senate Bill 318 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 5-1)
Status: Engrossed on March 1 2023 - 50% progression, died in committee
Action: 2023-03-06 - First reading: referred to Committee on Public Health
Pending: House Public Health Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Amended) [PDF]

Audit of Medicaid program prescription drug costs. Provides that the office of the attorney general, or an independent auditor with experience auditing expenses related to prescription drugs that is hired through a request for proposal process by the attorney general, shall conduct an audit concerning prescription drug costs for the Medicaid program. Requires the auditor to examine cost sharing, spread pricing, patient steering, proper brand and generic definitions, effective rate clawbacks, medical loss ratio inflation, formulary compliance, discriminatory pricing, and any other metric determined by the attorney general. Provides that the audit look back period for the initial audit must be the previous five state fiscal years. Provides that the audit look back period for every audit conducted thereafter must be the previous three state fiscal years. Provides that the results of an audit must be provided to the legislative council.

Audit of Medicaid program prescription drug costs.

Sen. Andy Zay [R]	Sen. Ed Charbonneau [R]	Sen. Lonnie Randolph [D]	Rep. Matthew Lehman [R]
Rep. Ann Vermilion [R]	Rep. Martin Carbaugh [R]

2023-02-28 - Senate - Senate - Third reading (Y: 49 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2023-03-06	House	First reading: referred to Committee on Public Health
2023-03-01	Senate	Referred to the House
2023-02-28	Senate	Cosponsors: Representatives Vermilion A and Carbaugh
2023-02-28	Senate	House sponsor: Representative Lehman
2023-02-28	Senate	Third reading: passed; Roll Call 193: yeas 49, nays 0
2023-02-27	Senate	Second reading: ordered engrossed
2023-02-23	Senate	Senator Charbonneau added as second author
2023-02-23	Senate	Committee report: amend do pass, adopted
2023-02-16	Senate	Senator Randolph added as coauthor
2023-02-16	Senate	Committee report: amend do pass adopted; reassigned to Committee on Appropriations
2023-01-12	Senate	First reading: referred to Committee on Insurance and Financial Institutions
2023-01-12	Senate	Authored by Senator Zay

Type	Source
Summary	https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2023/bills/senate/318/details
Text	https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2023/bills/senate/318/#1.INTR
Text	https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2023/bills/senate/318/#2.COMS
Text	https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2023/bills/senate/318/#3.COMS
Roll Call	https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2023/bills/senate/318/#S193