Current through 2024 NY Law Chapter 226
Section 2904 - Reporting requirements for pharmacy benefit managers(a)(1) On or before July first of each year, every pharmacy benefit manager shall report to the superintendent, in a statement subscribed and affirmed as true under penalties of perjury, the information requested by the superintendent including, without limitation, (i) any pricing discounts, rebates of any kind, inflationary payments, credits, clawbacks, fees, grants, chargebacks, reimbursements, other financial or other reimbursements, incentives, inducements, refunds or other benefits received by the pharmacy benefit manager; and(ii) the terms and conditions of any contract or arrangement, including other financial or other reimbursements incentives, inducements or refunds between the pharmacy benefit manager and any other party relating to pharmacy benefit management services provided to a health plan including but not limited to, dispensing fees paid to pharmacies.(2) The superintendent may require the filing of quarterly or other statements, which shall be in such form and shall contain such matters as the superintendent shall prescribe.(3) The superintendent may address to any pharmacy benefit manager or its officers any inquiry in relation to its provision of pharmacy benefit management services or any matter connected therewith. Every pharmacy benefit manager or person so addressed shall reply in writing to such inquiry promptly and truthfully, and such reply shall be, if required by the superintendent, subscribed by such individual, or by such officer or officers of the pharmacy benefit manager, as the superintendent shall designate, and affirmed by them as true under the penalties of perjury.(b) In the event any pharmacy benefit manager or person does not submit the report required by paragraph one of subsection (a) of this section or does not provide a good faith response to an inquiry from the superintendent pursuant to paragraph three of subsection (a) of this section within a time period specified by the superintendent of not less than fifteen business days, the superintendent is authorized to levy a civil penalty, after notice and hearing, against such pharmacy benefit manager or person not to exceed four thousand dollars per day for each day beyond the date the report is due or the date specified by the superintendent for response to the inquiry.(c) All information, documents and material disclosed by a pharmacy benefit manager under this section and in the possession or under control of the superintendent shall be deemed confidential and not subject to disclosure except where and as the superintendent determines that disclosure is in the public interest. This subsection shall not apply to information, documents and materials where they are in the possession and under the control of a person or entity other than the superintendent.Amended by New York Laws 2022, ch. 128,Sec.2, eff. 12/31/2021 and Sec. 5 eff. 2/24/2022.Added by New York Laws 2021, ch. 828,Sec. 2, eff. 3/31/2022.