SF 2601 Senate Long Description
Requiring and providing for certification of pharmacy benefits +managers by the commissioner of health, defining pharmacy benefits manager and +specifying certain certificate of authority application requirements; requiring +the disclosure of financial and utilization information and arrangements +relating to prescription drug purchasing to the commissioner and the attorney +general; regulating the dispensation of substitute prescription drugs, +requiring pharmacy benefits managers to obtain approval of the prescribing +health professional and to disclose to the covered individual and entity the+ cost of both drugs and benefits or payments accruing to the manager as a +result of the substitution; requiring and providing for commissioner enforcement, +requiring suspension or revocation of the authority of pharmacy benefits +managers for violation; authorizing attorney general pursuit of penalties and +remedies and covered entity civil actions; requiring commissioner issuance and +enforcement rules(mk)