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SB 5213 - Pharmacy benefit managers

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Section 1

  1. A pharmacy benefit manager must receive affirmative authorization from a covered person before filling a prescription through a nonresident pharmacy.

  2. If a covered person chooses to fill a prescription through a nonresident pharmacy, the pharmacy benefit manager shall ensure the covered person has easy and timely access to prescription counseling by a pharmacist and shall have consumer safeguard processes including management of medication distribution and shipping logistics.

  3. If a covered person chooses to fill a prescription through a nonresident pharmacy, the pharmacy benefit manager shall allow for dispensing at local network pharmacies under the following circumstances to ensure patient access to prescription drugs:

    1. If the prescription is delayed by more than one day; or

    2. If the prescription drug arrives in an unusable condition.

  4. For the purposes of this section, "nonresident pharmacy" has the same meaning as in RCW 18.64.360.

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