SB-0502, As Passed Senate, February 3, 2016

SUBSTITUTE FOR

SENATE BILL NO. 502

     A bill to amend 1984 PA 323, entitled

"The health care false claim act,"

by amending section 4a (MCL 752.1004a), as added by 2004 PA 411.

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

     Sec. 4a. (1) Neither of the following violates section 4:

     (a) A rebate or discount from a drug manufacturer or from a

company that licenses or distributes the drugs of a drug

manufacturer to a consumer for that the consumer's use of a drug

manufactured or licensed or distributed by that the drug

manufacturer or company. does not violate section 4.

     (b) A monetary payment from a drug manufacturer to a consumer,

the consumer's health professional, or a vendor that has a contract

with the drug manufacturer, for a health care service that the

prescribing information of a qualified drug requires or recommends

for initiating drug therapy.

     (2) This section does not alter any copayment, deductible,

coinsurance, or other cost-sharing requirements under a contract,

certificate, or policy issued by a health care corporation or

health care insurer.

     (3) As used in this section:

     (a) "Consumer's health professional" means a health

professional who did not prescribe the qualified drug or who does

not have a financial relationship to the health professional who

prescribed the qualified drug.

     (b) "Health care service" means any of the following:

     (i) Monitoring for bradycardia or atrioventricular conduction.

     (ii) Monitoring blood pressure.

     (iii) An electrocardiogram.

     (iv) A cardiac evaluation by a physician.

     (v) A complete blood count test.

     (vi) A liver function test.

     (vii) An eye examination for macular edema.

     (viii) A pulmonary function test, if clinically indicated.

     (ix) A vaccination.

     (x) An additional service included in the prescribing

information by the United States Food and Drug Administration.

     (c) "Health professional" means an individual who is licensed

or otherwise authorized to engage in a health profession under

article 15 of the public health code, 1978 PA 368, MCL 333.16101 to

333.18838.

     (d) "Physician" means an individual licensed or otherwise

authorized to engage in the practice of medicine under part 170 of

the public health code, 1978 PA 368, MCL 333.17001 to 333.17084, or

to engage in the practice of osteopathic medicine and surgery under

part 175 of the public health code, 1978 PA 368, MCL 333.17501 to

333.17556.

     (e) "Qualified drug" means a drug that has a United States

Food and Drug Administration approved indication to treat multiple

sclerosis.

     Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect 90 days

after the date it is enacted into law.