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<section article="gin" article_name="Insurance" number="15-1614" title_number="15" title_name="Health Insurance" subtitle_number="16" subtitle_name="Pharmacy Benefits Managers">
  <level label="a">
    <level label="1">
      <text>A pharmacy and therapeutics committee shall:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>include clinical specialists that represent the needs of a purchaser’s beneficiaries; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>include at least one practicing pharmacist and one practicing physician who are independent of any developer or manufacturer of prescription drugs.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>A majority of the members of a pharmacy and therapeutics committee shall be practicing physicians or practicing pharmacists.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>Each member of a pharmacy and therapeutics committee shall sign a conflict of interest statement updated at least annually disclosing any economic interest or relationship that could influence the pharmacy and therapeutics committee’s decisions.</text>
  </level>
</section>
