PRINTER'S NO. 783
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No.
568
Session of
2019
INTRODUCED BY DeLUCA, MILLARD, MURT, OTTEN, HARKINS, PASHINSKI,
ULLMAN, CALTAGIRONE, FREEMAN AND HILL-EVANS, MARCH 7, 2019
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON INSURANCE, MARCH 7, 2019
AN ACT
Amending the act of May 17, 1921 (P.L.682, No.284), entitled "An
act relating to insurance; amending, revising, and
consolidating the law providing for the incorporation of
insurance companies, and the regulation, supervision, and
protection of home and foreign insurance companies, Lloyds
associations, reciprocal and inter-insurance exchanges, and
fire insurance rating bureaus, and the regulation and
supervision of insurance carried by such companies,
associations, and exchanges, including insurance carried by
the State Workmen's Insurance Fund; providing penalties; and
repealing existing laws," in casualty insurance, providing
for pharmaceutical cost transparency.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. The act of May 17, 1921 (P.L.682, No.284), known
as The Insurance Company Law of 1921, is amended by adding a
section to read:
Section 635.8. Pharmaceutical Cost Transparency.--(a) This
section shall apply to a prescription drug that has one or more
of the following:
(1) An average wholesale price of five thousand dollars
($5,000) or more annually.
(2) An average wholesale price of five thousand dollars
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