58-29E-17. Placement on a maximum allowable cost list--Requirements--Promulgation of rules.
Prior to placing a prescription drug on a maximum allowable cost list, a pharmacy benefit manager shall ensure that the prescription drug is:
(1) Listed as therapeutically and pharmaceutically equivalent in the latest edition of, or any supplement to, the Food and Drug Administration's publication entitled Approved Drug Products with Therapeutic Equivalence Evaluations, as adopted by the State Board of Pharmacy, in rules promulgated pursuant to chapter 1-26;
(2) Not obsolete or temporarily unavailable; and
(3) Available for purchase, without limitation, by every pharmacy in this state, from a national or regional wholesale distributor licensed in this state.
Source: SL 2023, ch 166, § 15.