Miss. Code Ann. § 73-21-205

Pharmacists authorized to provide additional information to patients to allow them to consider affordable alternative payment options when acquiring prescription medication; provisions of contracts or agreements contrary to Sections 73-21-201 through 73-21-205 are void; compliance with this section does not constitute violation of contract or agreement to which pharmacist is party; protection for pharmacists acting or failing to act under this section

Known as the Mississippi Pharmacy Practice Act

The act spans §§ 73-21-1 to 73-21-99 (52 sections).

Laws, 2018, ch. 331, § 3, eff from and after July 1, 2018.

(1) Pharmacists mayprovide additional information to a patient to allow them an opportunityto consider affordable alternative payment options when acquiringtheir prescription medication.

(2) Any provisionof any contract or agreement contrary to the provisions of Sections 73-21-201 through 73-21-205 shall be consideredin violation of public policy and shall be void.

(3) Compliance withthis section shall not constitute a violation of any contract or provisionof any agreement to which the pharmacist or pharmacy is a party.

(4) Neither the board,any pharmacy benefit manager nor any third party shall penalize apharmacist for acting or failing to act under this section, nor shalla pharmacist or his agents or employees be liable for any act or failureto act under this section.

Current official text: Mississippi Code (LexisNexis). Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Mississippi statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.