HB 14

AN ACT relating to the insurance code; requiring health insurers and contracted utilization review entities to follow prior authorization regulations as specified; providing legislative findings; providing definitions; requiring rulemaking; and providing for effective dates.


HB 24

AN ACT relating to public health and safety; authorizing the department of health to comment on alterations or additions to health care facilities rather than approve these plans; repealing bed expansion limitations for nursing care facilities and hospitals as specified; making conforming amendments; and providing for an effective date.


SB 100

AN ACT relating to the insurance code; providing regulations for payment of claims from insurers or the insurer’s intermediary to pharmacies; providing definitions; requiring rulemaking; providing applicability; and providing for effective dates.


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HB 191

AN ACT relating to pharmacy benefit managers; requiring reporting on pharmacy benefit manager audits; regulating the conduct of pharmacy benefit managers; providing monetary reimbursement level requirements; amending provisions governing pharmacy benefit manager audits; requiring fee transparency; amending provisions governing maximum allowable cost appeals; regulating pharmacy benefit managers regarding the state employees’ and officials’ group insurance program; allowing groups to contract with insurers, preferred provider organizations or health maintenance organizations as specified; clarifying application of the Health Care Reimbursement Reform Act of 1985 to pharmacy benefit managers; providing definitions; making conforming amendments; repealing unnecessary definitions; requiring rulemaking; amending rulemaking authority; authorizing positions; providing appropriations; and providing for effective dates.


SF 151

Wyoming prescription drug transparency act. AN ACT relating to the insurance code; prohibiting specified actions by pharmacy benefit managers; allowing individuals to choose in network retail pharmacies as specified; providing definitions; excluding certain claims as specified; amending a definition; requiring pharmacy benefit managers to provide contact information as specified; amending the process for when a maximum allowable cost appeal is denied; requiring pharmacy benefit managers to allow pharmacies to file appeals in electronic batch formats; requiring pharmacy benefit managers to reimburse pharmacies as specified; authorizing pharmacies to decline to provide pharmacy services as specified; making conforming amendments; requiring rulemaking; providing appropriations; and providing for effective dates.


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SF 36

AN ACT relating to pharmacy benefit managers; requiring reporting on pharmacy benefit manager audits; regulating the conduct of pharmacy benefit managers; providing monetary reimbursement level requirements; amending provisions governing pharmacy benefit manager audits; requiring fee transparency; amending provisions governing maximum allowable cost appeals; regulating pharmacy benefit managers regarding the state employees’ and officials’ group insurance program; clarifying application of the Health Care Reimbursement Reform Act of 1985 to pharmacy benefit managers; providing definitions; making conforming amendments; repealing unnecessary definitions; requiring rulemaking; amending rulemaking authority; authorizing personnel; providing appropriations; and providing for effective dates.


HB 20

AN ACT relating to Medicaid; providing for the expansion of Medicaid eligibility; limiting the continued expansion of Medicaid eligibility as specified; repealing prior authorizations; and providing for an effective date.


HB 117

AN ACT relating to professions and occupations; entering into a compact with other states to allow licensed occupational therapist and licensed occupational therapy assistants licensed in one compact state to exercise a multistate licensure privilege in other states that are party to the compact; authorizing rulemaking by the compact commission; retaining authority to license occupational therapists and occupational therapy assistants only in this state; approving and specifying terms of the compact; making conforming amendments; providing for criminal history background checks; and providing for an effective date.