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HB 264 Original 2025 Regular Session Echols
Abstract: Requires a pharmacy benefit manager to apply any prescription rebate offered to a health
plan benefit recipient in excess of the total cost-sharing portion to the benefit of sponsor or
employer offering the health plan.
Proposed law requires a pharmacy benefit manager to calculate a covered individual's share of the
cost for a prescription drug, and then reduce it by an amount equal to 100% of any rebate offered.
Proposed law further provides that if the rebate amount exceeds the cost to the covered individual,
the remaining savings are passed on to the sponsor or employer providing the health plan to the
covered individual.
(Amends R.S. 22:1657.1(A))