Requires federally qualified health centers and rural health centers cover the cost of all ovulation enhancing drugs dispensed and other covered entities pursuant to section 340B of the federal public health service act.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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9159
IN SENATE
May 1, 2024
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Introduced by Sen. FERNANDEZ -- 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 requiring feder-
ally qualified health centers and rural health centers cover the cost
of all ovulation enhancing drugs dispensed
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 8 of section 2807 of the public health law is
2 amended by adding a new paragraph (g) to read as follows:
3 (g) The department in developing and revising an alternative payment
4 methodology for federally qualified health centers and rural health
5 clinics pursuant to section one of part FFF of chapter fifty-six of the
6 laws of two thousand twenty, as amended by section one of part C of
7 chapter fifty-seven of the laws of two thousand twenty-one, for such
8 covered entities as defined in section 340B of the federal public health
9 service act, 42 USC § 256b, for drugs that would otherwise be eligible
10 for pricing under section 340B of the federal public health service act,
11 shall also include the cost of all ovulation enhancing drugs dispensed
12 by such covered entities.
13 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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