For purposes of the Patient's Right to Pharmacy Choice Act:
1. "Health insurer" means any corporation, association, benefit society, exchange, partnership or individual licensed by the Oklahoma Insurance Code;
2. "Mail-order pharmacy" means a pharmacy licensed by this state that primarily dispenses and delivers covered drugs via common carrier;
3. "Pharmacy benefits manager" or "PBM" means a person that performs pharmacy benefits management and any other person acting for such person under a contractual or employment relationship in the performance of pharmacy benefits management for a managed-care company, nonprofit hospital, medical service organization, insurance company, third-party payor or a health program administered by a department of this state;
4. "Pharmacy and therapeutics committee" or "P&T committee" means a committee at a hospital or a health insurance plan that decides which drugs will appear on that entity's drug formulary;
5. "Retail pharmacy network" means retail pharmacy providers contracted with a PBM in which the pharmacy primarily fills and sells prescriptions via a retail, storefront location;
6. "Rural service area" means a five-digit ZIP code in which the population density is less than one thousand (1,000) individuals per square mile;
7. "Suburban service area" means a five-digit ZIP code in which the population density is between one thousand (1,000) and three thousand (3,000) individuals per square mile; and
8. "Urban service area" means a five-digit ZIP code in which the population density is greater than three thousand (3,000) individuals per square mile.
Added by Laws 2019, c. 426, § 3, eff. Nov. 1, 2019.