2004 Minnesota Statutes

     151.214 Payment disclosure. 

    Subdivision 1.    Explanation of pharmacy benefits.  A 
 pharmacist licensed under this chapter must provide to a 
 patient, for each prescription dispensed where part or all of 
 the cost of the prescription is being paid or reimbursed by an 
 employer-sponsored plan or health plan company, or its 
 contracted pharmacy benefit manager, the patient's co-payment 
 amount and the usual and customary price of the prescription or 
 the amount the pharmacy will be paid for the prescription drug 
 by the patient's employer-sponsored plan or health plan company, 
 or its contracted pharmacy benefit manager. 

    Subd. 2.    No prohibition on disclosure.  No 
 contracting agreement between an employer-sponsored health plan 
 or health plan company, or its contracted pharmacy benefit 
 manager, and a resident or nonresident pharmacy registered under 
 this chapter, may prohibit the pharmacy from disclosing to 
 patients information a pharmacy is required or given the option 
 to provide under subdivision 1. 

    HIST: 2004 c 268 s 13 

*   NOTE:  This section was also added by Laws 2004, chapter 
*288, article 3, section 5, to read as follows: 

*   "151.214 Payment disclosure. 

*   Subdivision 1.    Explanation of 
*pharmacy benefits.  A pharmacist licensed under this chapter 
*must provide to a purchaser, for each prescription dispensed 
*where part or all of the cost of the prescription is being paid 
*or reimbursed by an employer-sponsored plan or health plan 
*company, or its contracted pharmacy benefit manager, the 
*purchaser's co-payment amount and the usual and customary price 
*of the prescription or the amount the pharmacy will be paid for 
*the prescription drug by the purchaser's employer-sponsored plan 
*or health plan company, or its contracted pharmacy benefit 
*manager. 

*   Subd. 2.    No prohibition on disclosure.  No 
*contracting agreement between an employer-sponsored health plan 
*or health plan company, or its contracted pharmacy benefit 
*manager, and a resident or nonresident pharmacy registered under 
*this chapter, may prohibit the pharmacy from disclosing to 
*patients information a pharmacy is required or given the option 
*to provide under subdivision 1."