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Texas Insurance Code - INS § 1369.357. Appeal from Maximum Allowable Cost Price Determination

Current as of January 01, 2024 | Updated by Findlaw Staff

(a) A health benefit plan issuer or pharmacy benefit manager must provide in the contract with each pharmacist or pharmacy a procedure for the pharmacist or pharmacy to appeal a maximum allowable cost price of a drug on or before the 10th day after the date a pharmacy benefit claim for the drug is made.

(b) The health benefit plan issuer or pharmacy benefit manager shall respond to an appeal described by Subsection (a) in a documented communication not later than the 10th day after the date the appeal is received by the health benefit plan issuer or pharmacy benefit manager.

(c) If the appeal is successful, the health benefit plan issuer or pharmacy benefit manager shall:

(1) adjust the maximum allowable cost price that is the subject of the appeal effective on the day after the date the appeal is decided;

(2) apply the adjusted maximum allowable cost price to all similarly situated pharmacists and pharmacies as determined by the health benefit plan issuer or pharmacy benefit manager; and

(3) allow the pharmacist or pharmacy that succeeded in the appeal to reverse and rebill the pharmacy benefit claim giving rise to the appeal.

(d) If the appeal is not successful, the health benefit plan issuer or pharmacy benefit manager shall disclose to the pharmacist or pharmacy:

(1) each reason the appeal is denied; and

(2) the national drug code number from the national or regional wholesalers from which the drug is generally available for purchase by pharmacists and pharmacies in this state at the maximum allowable cost price that is the subject of the appeal.

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