Terms Used In Michigan Laws 550.841

  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Insurer: means an insurer that delivers, issues for delivery, or renews in this state a health plan that provides drug coverage under the insurance code of 1956, 1956 PA 218, MCL 500. See Michigan Laws 550.815
  • Pharmacy: means that term as defined in section 17707 of the public health code, 1978 PA 368, MCL 333. See Michigan Laws 550.817
  • pharmacy benefit manager: means an entity that contracts with a pharmacy or a pharmacy services administration organization on behalf of a health plan or carrier to provide pharmacy health services to individuals covered by the health plan or carrier or administration that includes, but is not limited to, any of the following:
  (i) Contracting directly or indirectly with pharmacies to provide drugs to enrollees or other covered persons. See Michigan Laws 550.817
  A contract between a pharmacy benefit manager and an insurer that exists on the date of licensure of the pharmacy benefit manager must comply with the requirements of this act as a condition of licensure for the pharmacy benefit manager.