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Lawmakers hear bill to give New Hampshire Prescription Drug Affordability Board better access to state data for price transparency
Summary
Representative Jess Edwards and PDAB officials described HB 645 as a law‑change to let the New Hampshire Prescription Drug Affordability Board request standardized reports from state agencies and private data holders so buyers can see true net drug costs.
Representative Jess Edwards told the committee HB 645 would change statutory procedures so the Prescription Drug Affordability Board (PDAB) can request standard reports from state data owners and use memoranda of understanding to access existing agency datasets instead of building a separate data warehouse. Edwards said the law’s purpose is to make pricing and utilization information available to buyers — state purchasers, insurers and large employers — so they can negotiate better contracts and identify unreasonable drug prices.
Edwards and former Representative and…
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