B.__"Covered individual" means a member, participant, enrollee, contract holder or policy holder or beneficiary of a covered entity who is provided health coverage by the covered entity.__"Covered individual" includes a dependent or other person provided health coverage through a policy, contract or plan for a covered individual.

C.__"Generic drug" means a chemically equivalent copy of a brand-name drug with an expired patent.

D.__"Labeler" means an entity or person that receives prescription drugs from a manufacturer or wholesaler and repackages those drugs for later retail sale and that has a labeler code from the federal Food and Drug Administration under 21 Code of Federal Regulations, 270.20 (1999).

E.__"Pharmacy benefits management" means the procurement of prescription drugs at a negotiated rate for dispensation within this State to covered individuals, the administration or management of prescription drug benefits provided by a covered entity for the benefit of covered individuals or any of the following services provided with regard to the administration of pharmacy benefits:

(1)__Mail service pharmacy;

(2)__Claims processing, retail network management and payment of claims to pharmacies for prescription drugs dispensed to covered individuals;

(3)__Clinical formulary development and management services;

(4)__Rebate contracting and administration;

(5)__Certain patient compliance, therapeutic intervention and generic substitution programs; and

(6)__Disease management programs.

F.__"Pharmacy benefits manager" means an entity that performs pharmacy benefits management.__"Pharmacy benefits manager" includes a person or entity acting for a pharmacy benefits manager in a contractual or employment relationship in the performance of pharmacy benefits management for a covered entity and includes mail service pharmacy.