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Chapter 431

H.P. 607 - L.D. 807

An Act To Prevent Overcharging for Prescription Drug Copayments

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:

Sec. 1. 22 MRSA §2699, sub-§2, ¶H  is enacted to read:

H.  A pharmacy benefits manager or insurer shall require a contracted pharmacy to charge to an enrollee or insured person the pharmacy's usual and customary price of filling the prescription or the contracted copayment, whichever is less.

Sec. 2. 22 MRSA §2699, sub-§5,  as enacted by PL 2003, c. 688, Pt. C, §10 and affected by §11, is repealed.

Sec. 3. Application. That section of this Act that enacts the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 22, section 2699, subsection 2, paragraph H applies to contracts between a pharmacy benefits manager or insurer and a pharmacy executed or renewed on or after January 1, 2008.

Effective September 20, 2007

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