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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."

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