HF 680 – Iowa

Status: Inactive / Dead
Year Introduced: 2019
Link: https://www.legis.iowa.gov/legislation/BillBook?ga=88&ba=HF680

A bill for an act relating to prescription drug benefits, pharmacies, pharmacy benefit managers, making penalties applicable, and including applicability provisions. (Formerly HF 573.) Requires a pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) to allow into its network otherwise qualified retail pharmacies. The Bill also prohibits pharmacy benefit managers from requiring that patients receive prescriptions via a mail order pharmacy and from imposing any different limitations or cost burdens on patients who elect to receive prescriptions from a network retail pharmacy instead of a mail order pharmacy, allowing patients to choose where to obtain their prescriptions. The Bill also establishes methods of appeal for retail pharmacies that are determined to not be qualified by a PBM, as well as methods for PBMs or insurance carriers to appeal any decision by the Commissioner of Insurance.


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