KY HB203 | 2022 | Regular Session
Status
Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Republican 42-4)
Status: Failed on February 7 2022 - 100% progression
Action: 2022-02-07 - WITHDRAWN
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]
Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Republican 42-4)
Status: Failed on February 7 2022 - 100% progression
Action: 2022-02-07 - WITHDRAWN
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]
Summary
Create new sections of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to establish definitions for pharmacy-related insurance practices; amend KRS 304.17A-164 to prohibit insurers, pharmacy benefit managers, and other administrators of pharmacy benefits from imposing certain requirements on health plan insureds; create new sections of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to require pharmacy benefit managers to establish reasonably adequate and accessible pharmacy networks; require pharmacy benefit managers to file, and the insurance commissioner to review, an annual report describing pharmacy networks; provide that information and data acquired by the Department of Insurance shall be considered proprietary and not subject to disclosure under KRS 61.870 to 61.884; establish requirements for certain contracts between a pharmacy or pharmacist and a pharmacy benefit manager; establish prohibited practices for pharmacy benefit managers; establish certain requirements for insurers and pharmacy benefit managers contracting for the provision of pharmacy benefit management services; prohibit administrators from offering any incentive or discount for use of an affiliated pharmacy benefit manager; establish a Pharmacy Benefits Management Advisory Council; create a new section of Subtitle 99 of KRS Chapter 304 to authorize the insurance commissioner to order reimbursement to persons who incurred a monetary loss as a result of a violation of provisions of legislation; amend KRS 304.9-054 to make technical changes; authorize the promulgation of administrative regulations; require pharmacy benefit managers to report certain information to the insurance commissioner; provide that certain reported information shall not be subject to disclosure under KRS 61.870 to 61.884; amend KRS 304.17A-708, 304.17A-712, and 304.17A-714 to conform; create a new section of Subtitle 17C of KRS Chapter 304 to apply provisions of legislation to limited health service benefit plans, including limited health service contracts; create a new section of Subtitle 38A of KRS Chapter 304 to apply provisions of legislation to limited health service organizations; amend 18A.225 to require the state employee health plan to comply with provisions of legislation; amend KRS 367.828 to establish certain requirements for health discount plans that purport to offer discounts, or access to discounts, on prescription drugs; provide that provisions of this Act shall be severable; require the insurance commissioner to promulgate regulations to implement the Act on or before January 1, 2023; EFFECTIVE, in part, January 1, 2023.
Title
AN ACT relating to consumer protection through regulation of pharmacy-related trade practices.
Sponsors
History
| Date | Chamber | Action |
|---|---|---|
| 2022-02-07 | House | WITHDRAWN |
| 2022-01-05 | House | to Committee on Committees (H) |
| 2022-01-05 | House | introduced in House |
Subjects
Administrative Regulations and Proceedings
Drugs and Medicines
Effective Dates, Delayed
Federal Laws and Regulations
Health Benefit Mandate
Insurance, Health
Pharmacists
Reports Mandated
State Employees
Drugs and Medicines
Effective Dates, Delayed
Federal Laws and Regulations
Health Benefit Mandate
Insurance, Health
Pharmacists
Reports Mandated
State Employees
Kentucky State Sources
| Type | Source |
|---|---|
| Summary | https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb203.html |
| Text | https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/22RS/hb203/orig_bill.pdf |
