2007 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 pharmacy's
own 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.
History: 2004 c 268 s 13; 2004 c 288 art 3 s 5; 2005 c 10 art 1 s 82; 2006 c 267 art 1 s 6