Bill Text: TX HB2346 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced


Bill Title: Relating to the determination of prescription drug reimbursement amounts under the Medicaid vendor drug program.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-03-30 - Left pending in committee [HB2346 Detail]

Download: Texas-2021-HB2346-Introduced.html
  87R2176 JG-F
 
  By: Klick H.B. No. 2346
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the determination of prescription drug reimbursement
  amounts under the Medicaid vendor drug program.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 32.0462, Human Resources Code, is
  amended by adding Subsection (a-1) to read as follows:
         (a-1)  In determining the usual and customary price of a
  prescription drug for purposes of determining the reimbursement
  amount for that drug under Subsection (a)(1), the commission shall
  exclude any discount price offered for the prescription drug,
  including a discount offered through a third party discount card or
  a membership discount price.
         SECTION 2.  If before implementing any provision of this Act
  a state agency determines that a waiver or authorization from a
  federal agency is necessary for implementation of that provision,
  the agency affected by the provision shall request the waiver or
  authorization and may delay implementing that provision until the
  waiver or authorization is granted.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2021.
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