Texas Government Code - GOV'T § 549.0106. Program Benefits Instead of Supplemental Rebates;  Monetary Contribution or Donation

(a) For purposes of this section, a program benefit may mean a disease management program authorized under this title, a drug product donation program, a drug utilization control program, prescriber and beneficiary counseling and education, a fraud or abuse initiative, and another service or administrative investment with guaranteed savings to a program a health and human services agency operates.

(b) The commission may enter into a written agreement with a manufacturer to accept a program benefit instead of a supplemental rebate only if:

(c) For purposes of this subchapter, the commission may consider a monetary contribution or donation to the arrangements described in Subsection (b) for the purpose of offsetting expenditures to other state health care programs, but that funding may not be used to offset expenditures for covered outpatient drugs as defined by 42 U.S.C. Section 1396r-8(k)(2) under the vendor drug program.  An arrangement under this subsection may not yield less than the amount this state would have benefited under a supplemental rebate.  The commission may consider an arrangement under this subchapter as satisfying the requirements of Section 549.0204(a).