Bill Text: NY S01748 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides that residential health care facilities may return and redistribute unused medication provided that such medication is in the manufacturer's original, tamper evident packaging; directs the commissioner of health to establish a reasonable fee of reimbursement of costs related to the receipt, restocking and redistribution of such medication payable to the pharmacy to which such medication is returned.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2012-01-04 - REFERRED TO HEALTH [S01748 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-S01748-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         1748
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                   January 12, 2011
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       Introduced by Sens. GOLDEN, RANZENHOFER -- read twice and ordered print-
         ed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Health
       AN  ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to return and redis-
         tribution of unused medication
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1. Section 2803-e of the public health law, as added by chap-
    2  ter 902 of the laws of 1977 and renumbered by chapter 340 of the laws of
    3  1980, is amended to read as follows:
    4    S 2803-e. Residential health care facilities;  return  and  redistrib-
    5  ution   of   unused  medication.  1.  Notwithstanding  any  inconsistent
    6  provision of law, rule or regulation to the contrary,  the  commissioner
    7  is  hereby  authorized  and  directed  to  permit  either  a resident or
    8  consultant pharmacist OR HIS OR HER DESIGNEE  in  a  residential  health
    9  care  facility to return to the pharmacy from which it was purchased any
   10  unused medication  provided  that  such  medication  is  sealed  in  THE
   11  MANUFACTURER'S  ORIGINAL unopened[,] TAMPER EVIDENT PACKAGING AND EITHER
   12  individually packaged [units] OR PACKAGED  IN  UNIT-DOSE  PACKAGING  and
   13  within  the recommended period of shelf life, AND, IF ORAL OR PARENTERAL
   14  MEDICATIONS, SEALED IN SINGLE-DOSE CONTAINERS APPROVED  BY  THE  FEDERAL
   15  FOOD  AND  DRUG  ADMINISTRATION,  AND, IF A TOPICAL OR INHALANT DRUG, IS
   16  SEALED IN UNITS-OF-USE CONTAINERS APPROVED BY THE FEDERAL FOOD AND  DRUG
   17  ADMINISTRATION  and  provided  that  such medication is not a controlled
   18  substance as defined in section thirty-three hundred six of [the  public
   19  health law] THIS CHAPTER.
   20    2.  The  pharmacy to which such medication as described in subdivision
   21  one of this section is returned shall be permitted to  receive,  restock
   22  and  redistribute  that  medication.   THE COMMISSIONER, IN CONSULTATION
   23  WITH THE ADVISORY COMMITTEE  ESTABLISHED  BY  SUBDIVISION  SIX  OF  THIS
   24  SECTION,  SHALL  ESTABLISH  A  REASONABLE  FEE OF REIMBURSEMENT OF COSTS
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD04234-01-1
       S. 1748                             2
    1  RELATED TO THE RECEIPT, RESTOCKING AND REDISTRIBUTION OF SUCH MEDICATION
    2  PAYABLE TO THE PHARMACY TO WHICH SUCH MEDICATION IS RETURNED.
    3    3.  The  pharmacy to which such medication as described in subdivision
    4  one of this section is returned shall be required to reimburse or credit
    5  the purchaser of that medication  for  the  unused  medication  that  is
    6  restocked and redistributed. No pharmacy shall be required to accept any
    7  medication returned under subdivision one of this section.
    8    4.  Neither  an  individual  patient  or  the state, if a patient is a
    9  recipient of a state funded program, shall be charged for unused medica-
   10  tion which according to the provisions  of  this  law  is  returned  for
   11  reimbursement or credit.
   12    5.  THE  COMMISSIONER  SHALL  ESTABLISH  PROCEDURES TO ASSURE THAT ANY
   13  RETURN OF MEDICATIONS AUTHORIZED  BY  THIS  SECTION,  AND  ANY  RECEIPT,
   14  RESTOCKING OR REDISTRIBUTION OF MEDICATION SO RETURNED SHALL COMPLY WITH
   15  THE  FEDERAL HEALTH INSURANCE PORTABILITY AND ACCOUNTABILITY ACT (HIPAA)
   16  OF 1996, AS AMENDED.
   17    6. THE DEPARTMENT SHALL CONVENE AN ADVISORY COMMITTEE  TO  ASSIST  THE
   18  COMMISSIONER IN DEVELOPING A REASONABLE FEE OF REIMBURSEMENT PURSUANT TO
   19  THE  PROVISIONS OF SUBDIVISION TWO OF THIS SECTION. THE ADVISORY COMMIT-
   20  TEE SHALL BE COMPRISED OF LICENSED PHARMACISTS CURRENTLY ENGAGED IN  THE
   21  PROVISION  OF LONG TERM CARE PHARMACY SERVICES. MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE
   22  SHALL BE APPOINTED BY THE GOVERNOR: TWO MEMBERS OF THE  COMMITTEE  SHALL
   23  BE  APPOINTED  ON  THE  RECOMMENDATION OF THE TEMPORARY PRESIDENT OF THE
   24  SENATE AND THE SPEAKER  OF  THE  ASSEMBLY;  AND  TWO  MEMBERS  SHALL  BE
   25  APPOINTED  ON  THE RECOMMENDATION OF THE MINORITY LEADER OF THE ASSEMBLY
   26  AND THE MINORITY LEADER OF THE SENATE.
   27    S 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
   28  it shall have become a law; provided, however, that the commissioner  of
   29  health  shall  promulgate  rules and regulations prior to such effective
   30  date.