§13782-A. Price disclosure
1. Price disclosure required. A pharmacist or pharmacy technician employed by a pharmacy shall disclose upon the request of any person making an inquiry in person or by telephone the price of any brand or generic drug sold by that pharmacy.
[PL 2007, c. 402, Pt. DD, §30 (AMD).]
2. Information required for price disclosure. In order to have sufficient information to disclose a prescription price, a pharmacist or pharmacy technician may ask the person making the inquiry for the following information:
A. The brand or generic name of the medication; [PL 1997, c. 245, §15 (NEW).]
B. The dose or strength of the medication, if applicable; or [PL 1997, c. 245, §15 (NEW).]
C. The quantity of the medication. [PL 1997, c. 245, §15 (NEW).]
[PL 1997, c. 245, §15 (NEW).]
3. Information not provided. If the inquiring person can not provide some or all of the information in subsection 2 and this information is necessary for the requested price to be determined, then the pharmacist or pharmacy technician may contact the prescribing practitioner in order to obtain the necessary information prior to disclosing the prescription price.
[PL 1997, c. 245, §15 (NEW).]
SECTION HISTORY
PL 1997, c. 245, §15 (NEW). PL 2007, c. 402, Pt. DD, §30 (AMD).
Structure Maine Revised Statutes
TITLE 32: PROFESSIONS AND OCCUPATIONS
Chapter 117: MAINE PHARMACY ACT
Subchapter 9: MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
32 §13781. Generic and therapeutically equivalent substitution
32 §13783. Posting prices (REPEALED)
32 §13784. Patient information regulation
32 §13785. Patient profile record system regulation
32 §13786. Identification of persons prescribing medicines on hospital prescription blanks
32 §13786-A. Security requirements; rules
32 §13786-B. Partial dispensing of prescription for opioid medication
32 §13786-C. Dispensing of prescription of opioid medication; immunity
32 §13786-D. Prescribing and dispensing insulin
32 §13786-E. Prescribing, dispensing and administering HIV prevention drugs
32 §13786-F. Dispensing of emergency supplies of chronic maintenance drug
32 §13787. Hypodermic syringes; prescriptions (REPEALED)
32 §13787-A. Sale of hypodermic apparatus
32 §13788. Sale of poisonous drugs
32 §13789. Possession of drug samples
32 §13790. Using drugs not in prescription
32 §13792. Sale by certain methods prohibited
32 §13793. Adulterating and selling drugs
32 §13794. Labeling of prescriptions
32 §13795. Photographic proof of identification; discretion to sell or dispense; immunity
32 §13796. Retail sale of targeted methamphetamine precursors
32 §13797. Prescription drug price information
32 §13798. Expedited partner therapy
32 §13799. Consumer choice preserved
32 §13800. Access to distributed drugs
32 §13800-A. Liability for product of another; exemption
32 §13800-B. Prohibition on providing conversion therapy to minors