Provides a residential health care facility shall ensure residents enrolled in the EPIC program shall have the opportunity to access prescription drug coverage under EPIC for any covered drugs dispensed to the resident by such health care facility.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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3591
2009-2010 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
March 25, 2009
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Introduced by Sens. KRUEGER, ADDABBO, HASSELL-THOMPSON, HUNTLEY, MONSER-
RATE, SAVINO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be
committed to the Committee on Health
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to access to
prescription drug coverage
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The public health law is amended by adding a new section
2 2804-b to read as follows:
3 § 2804-b. Residential health care facilities; access to prescription
4 drug coverage under the elderly pharmaceutical insurance coverage
5 program. A residential health care facility shall ensure that a resident
6 who is enrolled in the elderly pharmaceutical insurance coverage program
7 (EPIC) under title three of article two of the elder law shall have the
8 opportunity to access prescription drug coverage under EPIC for any
9 covered drugs, as defined in subdivision one of section two hundred
10 forty-one of the elder law, dispensed to the resident by the residential
11 health care facility.
12 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
13 ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD09749-01-9
