Increase Prescription Drug Pricing Transparency

Last updated: Jun 23, 2021

Details about this bill
Category: Pharmacy Related
Status: Passed
Sponsor: Senator Eloise Vitelli, Senate 19 - Oxford County
Session: 130
Bill #: LD 686

Position:

Monitoring.

Summary:

Senator Vitelli of Sagadahoc would amend the law governing prescription drug pricing for purchasers. It changes a requirement that a manufacturer notify the Maine Health Data Organization when the manufacturer has taken certain actions regarding high prescription drug pricing to a requirement that the organization produce and post on its publicly accessible website a list of prescription drugs for which manufacturers have taken those actions.