Requires managed care providers that provide coverage for prescription drugs to provide coverage for home delivery of any covered prescription by any non-mail-order retail pharmacy in the managed care provider network.
Requires health practitioners to discuss with patients the risks associated with certain pain medications before prescribing such medications; requires that for the first opioid analgesic prescription of a calendar year the prescribing physician shall counsel the patient on the risks of overdose.
Limits the initial prescription of a controlled substance for the alleviation of acute pain to a seven-day supply for users twenty years of age or older and to a three-day supply for users nineteen years of age or younger.
Requires the commissioner of health to promulgate rules and regulations requiring nursing homes and residential health care facilities to test all residents of such nursing homes and residential healthcare facilities for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19).
Authorizes emergency medical technicians to administer certain vaccines pursuant to non-patient specific orders and under the authority of an emergency medical services director after receiving appropriate training; authorizes physicians and certified nurse practitioners to prescribe and order a non-patient specific order to an emergency medical technician to administer certain vaccines; provides for the repeal of such provisions upon the expiration thereof.
Requires hospitals and medical facilities to notify nursing homes or assisted living facilities upon receipt of a positive COVID-19 test result for a resident of such nursing home or assisted living facility; provides penalties for violations.
Relates to the transparency and quality of care of operators of adult care facilities; requires certain applicants for adult care facilities to provide an opportunity for public comment on the application.
Establishes the consolidated assistance program for EMS departments which creates a sustainable state financing mechanism for emergency medical services.
Excludes fundraising from consideration in appropriating state aid and reimbursement for services to volunteer ambulance companies, including regional emergency medical councils.
Provides for the use of glucagon emergency injection kits by persons other than licensed health care professionals; provides for expanded use of epinephrine auto-injector devices in schools in emergency circumstances.