IMPROVEMENTS TO PHARMACY BENEFITS PROGRAM.

SEC. 714. IMPROVEMENTS TO PHARMACY BENEFITS PROGRAM. (a) Requirement Relating to Prescription Drug Benefits for Medicare-Eligible Enrollees.—Section 1074g(a)(6) of title 10, United States Code, is amended—(1) by inserting “(A)” after “(6)”; and (2) by adding at the end the following:“(B) For a medicare-eligible beneficiary, the cost-sharing requirements may not be in excess of the cost-sharing requirements applicable to all other beneficiaries covered by section 1086 of this title. For purposes of the preceding sentence, a medicare-eligible beneficiary is a beneficiary eligible for health benefits under section 1086 of this title pursuant to subsection (d)(2) of such section.”.(b) Improvement to Uniform Formulary Process.—Section 1074g(a)(2)(E)(i) of such title is amended by inserting before the semicolon the following: “and additional determinations by the Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee of the relative clinical and cost effectiveness of the agents”.