West Virginia House Bill 4545 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)
Status: Introduced on February 16 2016 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2016-02-24 - To House Finance
Pending: House Finance Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

The purpose of this bill is to regulate pharmacy benefits managers; to define terms; to require pharmacy benefits managers to register with the commissioner; to authorize the commissioner to charge registration fees; to authorize the commissioner to take action against a pharmacy benefits manager’s license or fine a pharmacy benefits manager upon violation of certain requirements; to require pharmacy benefits managers to maintain a “Maximum Cost List,” to require pharmacy benefits managers to update Maximum Allowable Cost Lists and to make the updates available in a reviewable format for pharmacies; to establish requirements for drugs to be placed on Maximum Allowable Cost Lists; to require contracts between pharmacy benefits managers and pharmacies to include a process to appeal, investigate and resolve disputes regarding maximum allowable cost pricing; to establish requirements for the appeals and dispute resolution process; to require pharmacy benefits managers to make certain disclosures to pharmacies regarding maximum cost lists; to allow a pharmacy to decline to provide a service or product to a patient if the Maximum Cost List will prevent the pharmacy from being paid the cost of providing the service; and to prohibit a patient from being required to pay an amount for pharmacist services that is greater than amount the pharmacy may retain.

Relating to regulation of pharmacy benefits managers

Del. Gary Howell [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2016-02-24	House	To House Finance
2016-02-24	House	Do pass, but first to Finance
2016-02-16	House	To House Health and Human Resources
2016-02-16	House	Introduced in House
2016-02-16	House	To Health and Human Resources then Finance
2016-02-16	House	Filed for introduction

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
33	46	21	New Code	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4545&year=2016&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill
Text	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb4545%20intr.htm&yr=2016&sesstype=RS&i=4545