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Rep. David Cannon introduces RS32580 to replace HB219 on copay-accumulator rules
Summary
Representative David Cannon introduced RS32580, a rewrite of earlier House Bill 219, intended to treat third-party payments to medication costs as counting toward patients' copays and out-of-pocket maximums while sharing cost impacts with drug manufacturers.
Representative David Cannon, R-Blackfoot, introduced RS32580 to the House Health and Welfare Committee as a replacement for the earlier House Bill 219 addressing so-called "copay accumulator" practices.
Cannon told the committee he first raised the matter after meeting the family of Emerson Drolinger, a high-school student in his district with cystic fibrosis. He described copay accumulator programs as an insurance practice…
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