Iowa Admin. Code r. 191-59.2
The terms defined in Iowa Code sections 510.11, 510B.1, and 510C.1 shall have the same meaning for the purposes of this chapter. The definitions contained in 191-Chapter 58, "Third-Party Administrators," and 191-Chapter 78, "Uniform Prescription Drug Information Card," are incorporated by reference. As used in this chapter:
"Complaint" means a written communication from a pharmacy or the commissioner to a pharmacy benefits manager that makes an inquiry or expresses a grievance and includes, but is not limited to, the following:
"Day" means a calendar day, unless otherwise defined or limited.
"Dosage unit" means the same as defined in 45 CFR Section 149.710.
"Ingredient costs" means the costs of the component of the prescription drug for prescriptions dispensed. Ingredient costs do not include dispensing fees, copayments received by the pharmacy, service fees or any other type of reimbursement paid to the pharmacy by a pharmacy benefits manager.
"Paid" means the later of either the day on which the payment is mailed by the pharmacy benefits manager or the day on which the electronic payment is processed by the pharmacy benefits manager's bank.
"Prescription drug cost reimbursement fee" means the dollar amount reimbursed by a third-party payor to the pharmacy benefits manager for the ingredient costs of a prescription drug. The prescription drug cost reimbursement fee may be a type of third-party payor administrative service fee.
"Wholesale acquisition cost" means the same as defined in 42 U.S.C. Section 1395w-3a(c)(6)(B).
Iowa Admin. Code r. 191-59.2