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| Bill | Health insurance; contracts with pharmacies and pharmacists, etc. | Provides that no provider contract between a health carrier or its pharmacy benefits manager and a pharmacy or its contracting agent shall contain a provision (i) authorizing the carrier or its pharmacy benefits manager to charge, (ii) requiring the pharmacy or pharmacist to collect, or (iii) requiring an enrollee to make, a copayment for a covered prescription drug in an amount that exceeds the least of the applicable copayment for the prescription drug that would be payable in the absence of this section or the cash price the enrollee would pay for the prescription drug if the enrollee purchased the prescription drug without using the enrollee's health plan. The measure requires provider contracts between a health carrier or its pharmacy benefits manager and a pharmacy or its contracting agent to contain specific provisions that allow a pharmacy to (a) disclose to an enrollee information relating to the provisions of this section and the availability of a more affordable therapeutically equivalent prescription drug; (b) sell a more affordable therapeutically equivalent prescription drug to an enrollee if one is available; and (c) offer and provide direct and limited delivery services to an enrollee as an ancillary service of the pharmacy. The measure applies to provider contracts entered into, amended, extended, or renewed on or after January 1, 2019. This bill is identical to | us/states/va | Virginia General Assembly | 2018 | HB 1177 | Virginia HB 1177 (2018) |
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Virginia HB 1177 (2018) — Health insurance; contracts with pharmacies and pharmacists, etc.
Provides that no provider contract between a health carrier or its pharmacy benefits manager and a pharmacy or its contracting agent shall contain a provision (i) authorizing the carrier or its pharmacy benefits manager to charge, (ii) requiring the pharmacy or pharmacist to collect, or (iii) requiring an enrollee to make, a copayment for a covered prescription drug in an amount that exceeds the least of the applicable copayment for the prescription drug that would be payable in the absence of this section or the cash price the enrollee would pay for the prescription drug if the enrollee purchased the prescription drug without using the enrollee's health plan. The measure requires provider contracts between a health carrier or its pharmacy benefits manager and a pharmacy or its contracting agent to contain specific provisions that allow a pharmacy to (a) disclose to an enrollee information relating to the provisions of this section and the availability of a more affordable therapeutically equivalent prescription drug; (b) sell a more affordable therapeutically equivalent prescription drug to an enrollee if one is available; and (c) offer and provide direct and limited delivery services to an enrollee as an ancillary service of the pharmacy. The measure applies to provider contracts entered into, amended, extended, or renewed on or after January 1, 2019. This bill is identical to
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
- House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1177ER) (committee substitute) — source
- House: Committee substitute printed 18106486D-H1 (committee substitute) — source
- House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18104095D (committee substitute) — source
Votes
- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — 98–0 (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate — 40–0 (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Commerce and Labor — 11–0 (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Commerce and Labor with substitute — 19–0 (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — 40–0 (pass) · legislature
Sponsors
- Todd E. Pillion — primary (person)
- Israel D. O'Quinn — cosponsor (person)
- Kathy J. Byron — cosponsor (person)
- M. Keith Hodges — cosponsor (person)
- Margaret B. Ransone — cosponsor (person)
- Terry G. Kilgore — cosponsor (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2018-01-10 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18104095D
introduction - 2018-01-10 Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions
referral-committee - 2018-01-18 Referred from Health, Welfare and Institutions by voice vote
- 2018-01-18 Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
referral-committee - 2018-02-05 Read first time
reading-1 - 2018-02-06 Read second time
reading-2 - 2018-02-06 Committee substitute agreed to 18106486D-H1
- 2018-02-06 Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB1177H1
- 2018-02-07 Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N)
passage, reading-3 - 2018-02-08 Constitutional reading dispensed
- 2018-02-08 Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
referral-committee - 2018-02-22 Read third time
reading-3 - 2018-02-26 Enrolled
- 2018-02-26 Signed by Speaker
- 2018-02-28 Signed by President
- 2018-03-02 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 2, 2018
- 2018-03-02 Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 9, 2018
- 2018-03-09 Approved by Governor-Chapter 245 (effective 7/1/18)
executive-signature
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/fdd1a6ae-6219-43ac-87ea-410ba0839658. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).