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3/3/2025
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Media Advisory: House Health, Human Services Committee to hear bills aimed at reducing costs of prescription drugs
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STATE HOUSE – The House Health and Human Services Committee meets Thursday for hearings on numerous bills aimed at reducing patients’ costs for prescription drugs.
The committee is scheduled to meet Thursday, March 6, at the rise of the House session (sometime after 4:30 p.m.) in the House Lounge on the second floor of the State House. Among the bills the committee is scheduled to hear are:
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2025-H 5026— Sponsored by Rep. Brian Patrick Kennedy (D-Dist. 38, Hopkinton, Westerly), this bill would limit the amount that an insured person would pay for insulin administration and glucose monitoring equipment and supplies $25 per 30-day supply or per item when an item is intended to be used for longer than 30 days, and would prohibit any deductible for the equipment and supplies.
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2025-H 5254 — Sponsored by Rep. Rebecca Kislak (D-Dist. 4, Providence), this bill would require pharmacy benefit managers to reimburse pharmacist no less than national drug acquisition costs, plus fee.
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2025-H 5853 — This bill sponsored by Rep. Teresa A. Tanzi (D-Dist. 34, South Kingstown, Narragansett) would establish the Wholesale Prescription Drug Importation Program for the importation of wholesale prescription drugs from Canada, to provide savings to Rhode Island consumers.
The meeting will be televised by Capitol Television, which can be seen on Cox channels 15 and 61, on i3Broadband channel 15 and on Verizon channel 34. It will be live streamed at capitoltvri.cablecast.tv.
Testimony on the bills being heard will be accepted in person or in writing via email to HouseHealthandHumanServices@rilegislature.gov. Written testimony must include a name and any applicable organization, the bill number(s) and viewpoint (for/against/neither). It will be considered a public document.
For more information, contact:
Meredyth R. Whitty, Publicist
State House Room 20
Providence, RI 02903
(401) 222-1923
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