Bill Text: NY A04740 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires the collection of prescription drug co-payments at the point of sale in pharmacies.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-01-08 - referred to health [A04740 Detail]
Download: New_York-2013-A04740-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 4740 2013-2014 Regular Sessions I N A S S E M B L Y February 8, 2013 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. SCHIMMINGER -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to the collection of prescription drug co-payments THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: 1 Section 1. Subparagraph (iii) of paragraph (c) of subdivision 6 of 2 section 367-a of the social services law, as amended by section 47 of 3 part C of chapter 58 of the laws of 2009, is amended to read as follows: 4 (iii) Notwithstanding any other provision of this paragraph, co- 5 payments charged for each generic prescription drug dispensed shall be 6 one dollar and for each brand name prescription drug dispensed shall be 7 three dollars; provided, however, that the co-payments charged for each 8 brand name prescription drug on the preferred drug list established 9 pursuant to section two hundred seventy-two of the public health law and 10 the co-payments charged for each brand name prescription drug reimbursed 11 pursuant to subparagraph (ii) of paragraph (a-1) of subdivision four of 12 section three hundred sixty-five-a of this title shall be one dollar. 13 THE PAYMENT OF SUCH CO-PAYMENTS SHALL BE MANDATORY AT THE POINT OF SALE 14 IN PHARMACIES. 15 S 2. Paragraph (i) of subdivision 2-a of section 369-ee of the social 16 service law, as amended by section 26 of part E of chapter 63 of the 17 laws of 2005, is amended to read as follows: 18 (i) co-payments charged for each generic prescription drug dispensed 19 shall be three dollars and for each brand name prescription drug 20 dispensed shall be six dollars AND THE PAYMENT OF SUCH CO-PAYMENTS SHALL 21 BE MANDATORY AT THE POINT OF SALE IN PHARMACIES; 22 S 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after 23 it shall have become a law, provided, however, that the amendments to 24 subparagraph (iii) of paragraph (c) of subdivision 6 of section 367-a of 25 the social services law made by section one of this act shall not affect 26 the repeal of such paragraph and shall be deemed to repeal therewith. EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD07805-01-3