Legislation


HB 1298 – Texas

Status: Inactive / Dead
Year Introduced: 2019
Link: https://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/86R/billtext/html/HB01298I.htm

Relating to prescription drug cost increases; imposing a civil penalty. Requires the Health and Human Services Commission to annually compile a list of prescription drugs by wholesale acquisition cost that includes 10 prescription drugs: (A) on which the commission or another state agency spends a significant amount of money under a health benefit plan administered by the agency; and (B) for which the wholesale acquisition cost has increased by at least: (i) 50 percent during the previous five calendar years; or (ii) 15 percent during the previous calendar year. The attorney general and commission shall post the lists described by Subsection (a) on the attorney general’s and commission’s Internet websites. Requires a manufacturer to provide to the attorney general a written report that includes (1) a justification for the increase in the net cost of the prescription drug for the commission, a health benefit plan issuer, or both; and (2) all relevant information and supporting documentation necessary to support the justification described by Subdivision (1).


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