General Assembly Raised Bill No. 246
February Session, 2018 LCO No. 1477
*01477_______HS_*
Referred to Committee on HUMAN SERVICES
Introduced by:
(HS)
General Assembly
Raised Bill No. 246
February Session, 2018
LCO No. 1477
*01477_______HS_*
Referred to Committee on HUMAN SERVICES
Introduced by:
(HS)
AN ACT LIMITING AUTO REFILLS OF PRESCRIPTION DRUGS COVERED UNDER THE MEDICAID PROGRAM.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:
Section 1. (NEW) (Effective from passage) (a) Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, a pharmacy provider shall not enroll any medical assistance recipient in an automatic prescription drug refill program, regardless of whether a recipient requests or consents to participation in such program. The Department of Social Services shall not make payment for a prescription drug refill without an explicit request for such payment from the recipient or the recipient's legal representative.
(b) The Commissioner of Social Services, in consultation with the Pharmaceutical and Therapeutics Committee established pursuant to section 17b-274d of the general statutes, as amended by this act, may exempt specific prescription drugs or classes of such drugs from the provisions of this section.
Sec. 2. Subsection (j) of section 17b-274d of the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective from passage):
(j) The Pharmaceutical and Therapeutics Committee may also make recommendations to the department regarding (1) the prior authorization of any prescribed drug and (2) what prescribed drug, if any, should be eligible for automatic refill.
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1 from passage New section
Sec. 2 from passage 17b-274d(j)
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1
from passage
New section
Sec. 2
from passage
17b-274d(j)
Statement of Purpose:
To prevent unnecessary costs and clinical outcomes associated with prescriptions that are unnecessarily automatically refilled.
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