Pandemic Darlings The pandemic economy, in original documents
Home Source documents Senate Commerce Committee Statement — Senate Bill No. 3604, State of New Jersey (May 15, 2023)

Senate Commerce Committee Statement — Senate Bill No. 3604, State of New Jersey (May 15, 2023)

Summary

The Senate Commerce Committee statement of May 15, 2023 reports Senate Bill No. 3604 favorably. The bill brings healthcare platforms such as GoodRx and SingleCare into the laws governing pharmacy benefits managers, pharmacists and telehealth. It authorizes patients to use a platform membership or account toward payment and provides that a licensee of the Board of Pharmacy will not be penalized for allowing a discount from a platform. A pharmacy benefits manager is not to prohibit or penalize a network pharmacy for applying a platform discounted price, even if the covered person maintains health insurance coverage.

Summary drafted by a model from the document's text below and checked by script against that text before publication. It is a navigation aid, not a reading of what the document proves. Where AI is used

Cite this document

“Senate Commerce Committee Statement — Senate Bill No. 3604, State of New Jersey (May 15, 2023).” Archived at Pandemic Darlings, https://pandemicdarlings.com/source-documents/2023-05-15-scm-s3604-s1-2d84f2b06e/, SHA-256 dfc4e3c418405bb43f0d88e212ace4a5777e23da2aaf14e1aafc3253e8a8738a.

Full text

     SENATE COMMERCE COMMITTEE

                    STATEMENT TO

                  SENATE, No. 3604

 STATE OF NEW JERSEY
                      DATED: MAY 15, 2023

     The Senate Commerce Committee reports favorably Senate Bill
No. 3604.
    This bill incorporates the use of healthcare platforms such as
GoodRx and SingleCare into the laws governing pharmacy benefits
managers, pharmacists and telehealth. “Healthcare platform” is
defined in the bill as an Internet-based service through which a
consumer, who may or may not have separate health insurance
coverage, may set-up an account or become a member to obtain
discounts on prescription or non-prescription drugs or devices and
through which other services, including telemedicine, may be
provided. The bill authorizes patients to use a membership or an
account with a healthcare platform and to stipulate that a licensee of
the Board of Pharmacy will not be penalized for allowing a patient
to use a discount from a healthcare platform as part of payment.
The bill also stipulates that a pharmacy benefits manager is to not
prohibit or apply any penalty or disincentive to a network pharmacy
if a discounted price generated by a healthcare platform is applied
to the payment made by a covered person with an account or
membership to the healthcare platform for a prescription drug even
if the covered person maintains health insurance coverage.
    Additionally, the bill allows a patient with a membership or an
account in a healthcare platform to apply the membership or
account towards payment of services provided as a result of
telehealth or telemedicine. The patient is to notify a provider of any
identification number, if given, in connection with the membership
or account with a healthcare platform to ensure the preservation of a
proper patient-provider relationship.

File and source

File
2023-05-15_SCM_S3604_S1.pdf
Size
110,686 bytes
SHA-256
dfc4e3c418405bb43f0d88e212ace4a5777e23da2aaf14e1aafc3253e8a8738a
Our copy
2023-05-15_SCM_S3604_S1.pdf
Original
No public link identified.
Back to top