Bill Text: NY A07922 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Relates to not for profit pharmacies operated by an institution of higher education; requires policies issued by a Medicaid managed care provider to consider such pharmacies to be in the provider's pharmacy network.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-06-20 - substituted by s6689 [A07922 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A07922-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         7922--A
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                      May 19, 2017
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        Introduced  by  M. of A. STECK, FAHY, McDONALD -- read once and referred
          to the Committee on Health  --  committee  discharged,  bill  amended,
          ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
        AN  ACT  to amend the social services law, in relation to not for profit
          pharmacies operated by an institution of higher education
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Section  364-j  of  the social services law is amended by
     2  adding a new subdivision 34 to read as follows:
     3    34. For any policy issued by a Medicaid managed  care  provider  under
     4  this section which provides coverage for prescription drugs, the provid-
     5  er  shall  offer  to include in its pharmacy network any pharmacy regis-
     6  tered under section sixty-eight hundred eight of the education law, that
     7  is a not for profit entity, operated by an institution of higher  educa-
     8  tion, is located in a postal zip code in which the managed care provider
     9  has  enrollees,  and  that primarily serves low income individuals or an
    10  underserved population, to enable plan enrollees  to  fill  any  covered
    11  drug  prescription  at  such pharmacy and the pharmacy shall be paid the
    12  same reimbursement amount for covered prescription drugs as other  phar-
    13  macies participating in the provider's network.
    14    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
    15  have become a law; provided that the commissioner of health  shall  make
    16  regulations  and  take  other  actions reasonably necessary to implement
    17  this act on such date; and provided, however,  that  the  amendments  to
    18  section 364-j of the social services law made by section one of this act
    19  shall not affect the repeal of such section and shall be deemed repealed
    20  therewith.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11701-02-7