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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          6689
 
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                      June 13, 2017
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  Sen. AMEDORE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
 
        AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to not  for  profit
          pharmacies operated by an institution of higher education
 
          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 34 to read as follows:
     3    34.  For  any  policy issued by a Medicaid managed care provider under
     4  this section which provides coverage for prescription drugs, the provid-
     5  er shall offer to include in its pharmacy network  any  pharmacy  regis-
     6  tered under section sixty-eight hundred eight of the education law, that
     7  is  a not for profit entity, operated by an institution of higher educa-
     8  tion, is located in a postal zip code in which the managed care provider
     9  has enrollees, and that primarily serves low income  individuals  or  an
    10  underserved  population,  to  enable  plan enrollees to fill any covered
    11  drug prescription at such pharmacy and the pharmacy shall  be  paid  the
    12  same  reimbursement amount for covered prescription drugs as other phar-
    13  macies participating in the provider's network.
    14    § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
    15  have  become  a law; provided that the commissioner of health shall make
    16  regulations and take other actions  reasonably  necessary  to  implement
    17  this  act  on  such  date; and provided, however, that the amendments to
    18  section 364-j of the social services law made by section one of this act
    19  shall not affect the repeal of such section and shall be deemed repealed
    20  therewith.
 
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11701-03-7