Prescription Information to be Kept Confidential

Bars pharmacies, PBMs, insurers and transmission intermediaries from licensing, transferring, using or selling prescription records containing patient- or prescriber-identifiable data for commercial purposes, apart from reimbursement, formulary compliance, care management, utilization review, health care research, or as otherwise allowed by law. The First Circuit upheld the law in IMS Health v. Ayotte (2008), but that ruling was abrogated by Sorrell v. IMS Health (2011), which struck down a similar Vermont prescriber-data law, so the prescriber-data restriction is constitutionally vulnerable.