Kentucky House Bill 349 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
April 4 2012 - signed by Governor (Acts ch. 20)
Text: Latest bill text (Draft #2) [MS Word]

Amend KRS 304.17A-741 to prohibit an auditing entity from requiring a pharmacy to keep records longer than two years or longer than required by state or federal law; prohibit an auditing entity from receiving payment based on the total amount recovered in an audit; prohibit a pharmacy from recoupment of funds by the auditing entity if an audit results in the identification of clerical or recordkeeping errors; grant a pharmacy the right to file amended claims to correct clerical or recordkeeping errors within 30 days if the prescription was dispensed according to state and federal law; permit an auditing entity to seek a refund or recoupment of overpayment limited to the amount paid to the pharmacy minus the amount that should have been paid to the pharmacy, minus dispensing fee; require audit information to be confidential and not shared with other auditing entities; require clean claims to be paid in accordance with 304.17A-702; create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to subject Medicaid managed care organizations to pharmacy audits conducted by the Department of Insurance; amend KRS 304.17A-745 to conform.

AN ACT relating to pharmacy audits.

Rep Adams, Royce W.	Rep Nesler, Fred	Rep Richards, Jody	Rep Steele, Fitz
Rep Stone, Wilson	Rep Thompson, Tommy	Rep Watkins, David	Rep Yonts, Brent
Rep John Short	Rep Moore, Tim	Rep Montell, Brad	Rep King, Martha Jane
Rep Carney, John	Rep Damron, Robert R.	Rep DeCesare, Jim	Rep Edmonds, Ted "Teddy"
Rep Floyd, David	Rep Hall, W. Keith	Rep Housman, Brent	Rep Keene, Dennis
Rep Sara Beth Gregory

Date	Chamber	Action
2012-04-04		signed by Governor (Acts ch. 20)
2012-03-23		delivered to Governor
2012-03-23		enrolled, signed by each presiding officer
2012-03-23		received in House
2012-03-22		3rd reading, passed 36-0
2012-03-22		posted for passage in the Consent Orders of the Day for Thursday, March 22, 2012
2012-03-15		2nd reading, to Rules
2012-03-14		reported favorably, 1st reading, to Consent Calendar
2012-03-08		reassigned to Health & Welfare (S)
2012-02-29		to Appropriations & Revenue (S)
2012-02-27		received in Senate
2012-02-24		3rd reading, passed 92-0 with Committee Substitute, floor amendment (1)
2012-02-23		floor amendment (1) filed to Committee Substitute
2012-02-21		taken from the Consent Orders of the Day, placed in the Regular Orders of the Day
2012-02-16		posted for passage in the Consent Orders of the Day for Wednesday, February 22, 2012
2012-02-16		2nd reading, to Rules
2012-02-15		reported favorably, 1st reading, to Consent Calendar with Committee Substitute
2012-02-02		posted in committee
2012-02-01		to Banking & Insurance (H)
2012-01-31		introduced in House

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/12RS/HB349.htm
Text	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/12RS/HB349/bill.doc