3.0.0 2970 2023-01-11T21:19:52Z 2023-01-11T21:19:52Z House H HR 2007-07-10 110 hsif00 Energy and Commerce Committee House Standing hsif14 Health Subcommittee Referred to 2007-07-10T19:41:42Z Referred to 2007-07-10T18:01:15Z 2007-07-10 hsif14 Health Subcommittee 1 House committee actions Referred to the Subcommittee on Health. Committee 2007-07-10 Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce. IntroReferral H11100 2 House floor actions hsif00 Energy and Commerce Committee 2007-07-10 Introduced in House IntroReferral Intro-H 9 Library of Congress 2007-07-10 Introduced in House IntroReferral 1000 9 Library of Congress W000792 Rep. Weiner, Anthony D. [D-NY-9] ANTHONY WEINER D NY D. 9 N Law Business records Commerce Consumer discounts Consumer education Consumer protection Contracts Drug industry Drug utilization Drugs Fees Finance and Financial Sector Financial statements Fines (Penalties) Generic drugs Government Operations and Politics Government paperwork Health Health care fraud Health insurance Insurance companies Medical statistics Patients' rights Pharmacies Prescription pricing Restrictive trade practices Law 00 2007-07-10 Introduced in House 2007-08-22T20:29:01Z Pharmacy Benefit Manager Transparency Act of 2007 - Prohibits any pharmaceutical drug manufacturer from having a controlling interest in an entity that is a pharmacy benefit manager. Allows the Secretary of Health and Human Services to issue civil penalties for violations as necessary.

Prohibits pharmacy benefit managers from making drug interchanges: (1) to a drug with a greater cost; (2) without disclosure to the individual of the savings associated with the interchange; or (3) from a drug with generic equivalents to a drug without generic equivalents, unless the latter is lower in cost than each of the generic equivalents of the drug from which the prescription would be changed.

Requires pharmacy benefit managers to annually disclose all compensation received from drug manufacturers to the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice (DOJ) and to the client plans of such manager.

]]> Pharmacy Benefit Manager Transparency Act of 2007 Official Title as Introduced To ensure integrity in the operation of pharmacy benefit managers. Introduced in House IH Display Title Pharmacy Benefit Manager Transparency Act of 2007 Short Titles as Introduced Pharmacy Benefit Manager Transparency Act of 2007 Introduced in House 2007-07-10T04:00:00Z 2007-07-10 Referred to the Subcommittee on Health. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.