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Senate Bill S6629

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Relates to providing transparency in the retail prices of prescription drugs

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2017-S6629 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A8046
Current Committee:
Senate Rules
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Add §278-a, Pub Health L; amd §6810, Ed L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: A6056
2021-2022: A2340
2023-2024: A3494
2025-2026: A6713

2017-S6629 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires pharmacies to provide customers directly with the retail (before insurance) price of a prescription, in writing and electronically prior to purchase.

2017-S6629 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2017-S6629 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6629
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               June 8, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. LATIMER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
 
 AN ACT to amend the public health law and the education law, in relation
   to transparency in retail prices of prescription drugs
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  The  public health law is amended by adding a new section
 278-a to read as follows:
   § 278-A. PRESCRIPTION DRUG PRICE TRANSPARENCY.  1.  AS  USED  IN  THIS
 SECTION,  "RETAIL PRICE" SHALL MEAN THE PRICE AT WHICH A PARTICULAR DRUG
 IS SOLD NOTWITHSTANDING THE COST AN INDIVIDUAL WOULD PAY  AFTER  PHARMA-
 CEUTICAL INSURANCE PRICING IS CALCULATED.
   2.   EVERY   RECIPIENT   OF   A  PHARMACEUTICAL  PRODUCT  PURSUANT  TO
 PRESCRIPTION SHALL BE PROVIDED WITH THE  RETAIL  PRICE  OF  HIS  OR  HER
 PRESCRIPTION  IN  WRITING  AND  TRANSMIT  SUCH  IN AN ELECTRONIC FORMAT,
 INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO SMS OR E-MAIL PRIOR TO BEING  CHARGED  FOR
 SUCH PRESCRIPTION.
   3.  A  PHARMACY THAT RECEIVES AN ELECTRONIC PRESCRIPTION SHALL, AT THE
 TIME THE PRESCRIPTION IS DISPENSED, PROVIDE  THE  RETAIL  PRICE  OF  THE
 PRESCRIPTION  IN  WRITING  AND  TRANSMIT  SUCH  IN AN ELECTRONIC FORMAT,
 INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO SMS OR E-MAIL DIRECTLY TO THE  PATIENT  OR
 THE PERSON MAKING THE REQUEST ON BEHALF OF THE PATIENT.
   4.  THE  PRICE  TRANSPARENCY  REQUIRED  PURSUANT TO THIS SECTION SHALL
 APPLY TO ALL NEW PRESCRIPTIONS WRITTEN AFTER THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF  THIS
 SECTION;  PROVIDED,  HOWEVER,  THAT  ANY  INDIVIDUAL WHO REQUESTS RETAIL
 PRICE INFORMATION ABOUT A PRESCRIPTION  ORIGINALLY  WRITTEN  BEFORE  THE
 ENACTMENT  OF  THIS  SECTION  SHALL BE PROVIDED WITH SUCH INFORMATION IN
 WRITTEN AND ELECTRONIC FORM AS DESCRIBED  IN  SUBDIVISION  TWO  OF  THIS
 SECTION.
   §  2.  Section  6810  of  the education law is amended by adding a new
 subdivision 10-b to read as follows:
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

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