20-3331. Pharmacy benefit managers; requirements; applicability
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A. A pharmacy benefit manager shall do all of the following:
1. Update the price and drug information for each list that the pharmacy benefit manager maintains every seven business days.
2. At the beginning of the term of a contract, on renewal of a contract and at least once annually during the term of a contract, make available to each network pharmacy the sources used to determine maximum allowable cost pricing.
3. Establish a process by which a network pharmacy may appeal its reimbursement for a drug subject to maximum allowable cost pricing.
4. Allow a pharmacy services administrative organization that is contracted with the pharmacy benefit manager to file an appeal of a drug on behalf of the organization's contracted pharmacies.
B. Beginning on January 1, 2020, this section applies to all new and existing contracts between a pharmacy benefit manager and a licensed pharmacy.