KY HB547 | 2012 | Regular Session

Status

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Introduced on March 1 2012 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2012-03-05 - to Health & Welfare (H)
Pending: House Health and Welfare Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Draft #1) [MS Word]

Summary

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to define the terms "cabinet," "maximum allowable cost," and "multiple source drug"; permit a Medicaid managed care organization contracting with the cabinet to establish a maximum allowable cost for a drug if there are at least two or more bioequivalent or therapeutically equivalent multiple source noninnovator drugs available; establish criteria for determining the maximum allowable cost; require a Medicaid managed care organization to establish a process for a provider to appeal the maximum allowable cost.

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Title

AN ACT relating to Medicaid prescription drugs.

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History

DateChamberAction
2012-03-05 to Health & Welfare (H)
2012-03-01 introduced in House

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