173.78 Drug mail order system - participant purchase information.

(A) For purposes of making drugs included in the Ohio’s best Rx program available to participants by mail, the department of aging shall include a drug mail order system within the program. Not more than one drug mail order system shall be included in the program. Subject to division (B) of this section, the program’s drug mail order system shall be provided in accordance with rules adopted under section 173.83 of the Revised Code.

(B) Neither the department nor the drug mail order system shall promote the purchase of drugs through the system by using information collected under the program regarding the drugs purchased by participants from participating terminal distributors. This division does not preclude the use of the information for purposes of limiting the amount that a participant may be charged for a quantity of a drug purchased through the drug mail order system to an amount that is not more than the amount that would be charged if the same quantity of the drug were purchased from a participating terminal distributor.

Effective Date: 07-01-2007