Bill Text: NY A00334 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Authorizes workers' compensation claimants to use any in-state pharmacy that is registered with the education department, though an employer or insurance carrier may encourage use of a pharmacy with which it has a contract; provides that a workers' compensation carrier shall not be liable for charges from any out-of-state pharmacy or for any extemporaneous compound medication that has by been approved by the Food and Drug Administration.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to labor [A00334 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-A00334-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 334 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 4, 2023 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. BRONSON -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Labor AN ACT to amend the workers' compensation law, in relation to the provision of prescription medicine to workers' compensation claimants The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Paragraph 5 of subdivision (i) of section 13 of the work- 2 ers' compensation law, as added by chapter 6 of the laws of 2007, is 3 amended to read as follows: 4 (5) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, if an employ- 5 er or carrier has contracted with a pharmacy to provide prescribed medi- 6 cine to claimants, then such employer or carrier may [require] encourage 7 claimants to obtain all prescribed medicines from the pharmacy with 8 which it has contracted[, except if a medical emergency occurs and it9would not be reasonably possible to obtain immediately required10prescribed medicine from the pharmacy with which the employer or carrier11has a contract]. An employer or carrier that [requires] encourages 12 claimants to obtain prescribed medicines from a pharmacy with which it 13 has a contract must notify claimants of the pharmacy or pharmacies with 14 which it has a contract, the locations and addresses of the pharmacy or 15 pharmacies, if applicable, how to initially fill and refill 16 prescriptions through the mail, internet, telephone or other means, and 17 any other required information that must be supplied to the pharmacy or 18 pharmacies. [If the pharmacy or pharmacies with which the employer or19carrier contracts does not offer mail order service and does not have a20physical location within a reasonable distance from the claimant, as21defined by regulation of the board, the claimant may obtain prescribed22medicines at the pharmacy or pharmacies of his or her choice and the23employer or carrier will be liable for such charges in accordance with24the fee schedule prescribed in section thirteen-o of this chapter.] 25 While an employer or a carrier may contract with a network pharmacy and EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD01549-01-3A. 334 2 1 encourage claimants to use it exclusively, claimants may obtain 2 prescribed medicines at the pharmacy or pharmacies of his or her choice 3 so long as that pharmacy is registered as a resident, in-state pharmacy 4 with the education department, and the employer or carrier shall be 5 liable for such charges in accordance with the fee schedule prescribed 6 in section thirteen-o of this article so long as the medications are 7 casually related to the claimant's work related injuries. Such require- 8 ments shall not apply to any non-resident, out-of-state pharmacies nor 9 shall it apply to any compound medications that the claimant is 10 prescribed. The employer or carrier shall have the right to deny any 11 charges that originate from non-resident, out-of-state pharmacies and 12 deny any charges for extemporaneous compound medications that have not 13 been approved by the federal Food and Drug Administration. 14 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after 15 it shall have become a law.