SENATE AMENDMENT

    Bill No. CS for CS for SB 940

    Amendment No.    

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11  Senator Lee moved the following amendment:

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13         Senate Amendment (with title amendment) 

14         On page 3, lines 13 through 27, delete those lines

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16  and insert:  order for a drug product to be covered under

17  Medicaid or this program, the product's manufacturer shall:

18         (a)  Provide a rebate to the state equal to the rebate

19  required by the Medicaid program on a basis determined by the

20  agency; and

21         (b)  Make the drug product available to the program for

22  the best price that the manufacturer makes the drug product

23  available under any purchasing agreement.

24         (c)  File an annual report with the Agency for Health

25  Care Administration which discloses the amount the

26  manufacturer spent on gifts, payments, subsidies, or other

27  financial inducements, other than complimentary samples of

28  medicinal drugs, to physicians licensed under the Board of

29  Medicine, the Board of Osteopathic Medicine, the Board of

30  Podiatric Medicine, and the Board of Dentistry in this state

31  that do not primarily entail a benefit to patients and are of

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                                                  SENATE AMENDMENT

    Bill No. CS for CS for SB 940

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 1  a substantial value. The manufacturer must also disclose any

 2  gifts, payments, subsidies, or other financial inducements

 3  that exceed $50 per single practitioner per instance and any

 4  cumulative gifts, payments, subsidies, or other financial

 5  inducements that exceed $150 per single practitioner per year.

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 9  And the title is amended as follows:

10         On page 1, line 10, after the word "program"

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13         or Medicaid

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