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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                        10248--B
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                      May 16, 2012
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. P. RIVERA, GOTTFRIED, CAMARA, CASTRO, CRESPO,
          CYMBROWITZ,  SCARBOROUGH,  ARROYO,  AUBRY,  BROOK-KRASNY,   ZEBROWSKI,
          GIBSON,  N. RIVERA,  HOOPER,  RODRIGUEZ, GUNTHER, MAGNARELLI, ROBERTS,
          LIFTON,  LINARES,  ROSENTHAL,  JAFFEE,  BENEDETTO,  COLTON,  DINOWITZ,
          MONTESANO,  ABINANTI,  REILLY,  SIMANOWITZ,  MAISEL,  JACOBS, BURLING,

          BOYLAND, ABBATE, WEISENBERG, PERRY, SCHIMEL, WEPRIN, GABRYSZAK,  STEV-
          ENSON,  TITONE,  ESPINAL  --  Multi-Sponsored  by -- M. of A. BRENNAN,
          BRONSON, CLARK, COOK, CROUCH, GLICK, HEASTIE, LATIMER, LENTOL,  LUPAR-
          DO,  MAGEE,  MILLMAN,  PEOPLES-STOKES,  RUSSELL,  SKARTADOS,  SWEENEY,
          THIELE, TITUS, WEINSTEIN -- read once and referred to the Committee on
          Health -- committee discharged, bill  amended,  ordered  reprinted  as
          amended  and recommitted to said committee -- reported and referred to
          the Committee on Ways and Means -- committee discharged, bill amended,
          ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
 
        AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation  to  directing  the
          commissioner  of  health to develop a standard prior prescription drug
          authorization request form for managed care providers
 

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section  1.  Section  364-j  of  the social services law is amended by
     2  adding a new subdivision 26 to read as follows:
     3    26. The commissioner of health shall develop a standard prior authori-
     4  zation request form or forms to be utilized by all managed care  provid-
     5  ers for purposes of submitting a request for a utilization review deter-
     6  mination  for  coverage  of prescription drug benefits under this title.
     7  The managed care provider shall make the  standard  prior  authorization
     8  request  form  or  forms available to, and shall accept it or them from,
     9  prescribing providers in paper and electronic form.

    10    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately; provided,  however,  that
    11  the  amendment  to  section  364-j  of  the social services law, made by
    12  section one of this act shall not affect the repeal of such section  and
    13  shall be deemed repealed therewith.
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15817-03-2