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Last action · February 26, 2025

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Introduced February 18, 2025

House

Adjourned Sine Die

2025 Regular Session

HB614

AN ACT relating to professional dispensing fees for prescription drugs and declaring an emergency.

Amend KRS 304.17A-595 to remove requirement for certain health insurance contracts to provide a temporary minimum dispensing fee to retail independent pharmacies.

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This bill would remove a current requirement that certain health insurance contracts pay a minimum dispensing fee to independent retail pharmacies when they fill prescriptions. Dispensing fees are amounts insurers pay pharmacies to cover the cost of preparing and providing medications to patients. Who it may affect: independently owned retail pharmacies and patients who use them.

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