(vi) Rebate contracting and administration.
(vii) Managing a patient compliance, therapeutic
intervention and generic substitution program.
(viii) Operating a disease management program.
(ix) Setting pharmacy reimbursement pricing and
methodologies, including maximum allowable cost, and
determining single or multiple source drugs.
"Pharmacy benefits manager." A person, business or other
entity that performs pharmacy benefits management.
"Pharmacy services administration organization." A company
that provides contract negotiation, communication and help-desk
services between pharmacies and pharmacy benefits managers.
Section 3. Disclosure of prescription drug costs.
(a) Information to covered individual.--A pharmacy or
pharmacist shall have the right to provide a covered individual
with information concerning the cost of a prescription drug,
including the individual's cost share.
(b) No prohibition or penalization.--A pharmacy, pharmacist
or contracting agent of a pharmacy or pharmacist may not be
prohibited from or penalized by a pharmacy benefits manager for
discussing the information under subsection (a), disclosing the
availability of therapeutically equivalent alternative
medications or selling to the covered individual a more
affordable alternative if an affordable alternative is
available.
Section 4. Disclosure of contract information.
(a) Disclosure authorized.--A pharmacy benefits manager
shall not prohibit, restrict or limit written or oral disclosure
of contract information by a pharmacist or pharmacy to any
State, county or municipal official or before any State, county
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