Bill Text: NY A10960 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Relates to temporarily exempting covered entities under the federal 340B program and comprehensive HIV special needs plans.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 28-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-09-09 - referred to health [A10960 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A10960-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          10960

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    September 9, 2020
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Gottfried)
          -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health

        AN ACT to amend part FFF of chapter 56 of the laws of 2020, amending the
          public health law relating to extending  and  enhancing  the  Medicaid
          drug  cap  and to reduce unnecessary pharmacy benefit manager costs to
          the Medicaid program, in relation  to  temporarily  exempting  covered
          entities  under the federal 340B program and comprehensive HIV special
          needs plans

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  Part  FFF of chapter 56 of the laws of 2020, amending the
     2  public health law relating to extending and enhancing the Medicaid  drug
     3  cap  and  to  reduce  unnecessary  pharmacy benefit manager costs to the
     4  Medicaid program, is amended by adding a new  section  1-b  to  read  as
     5  follows:
     6    §  1-b.  Notwithstanding  any  provision of this part or other law, no
     7  action shall be taken by the commissioner of health or the department of
     8  health to remove the pharmacy benefit  from  the  managed  care  benefit
     9  package under medical assistance (Medicaid) before April 1, 2024 for the
    10  following  entities:  (a) an eligible provider under section 340B of the
    11  federal Public Health Service Act and (b) a  comprehensive  HIV  special
    12  needs plan under section 4403-c of the public health law.
    13    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD17221-01-0
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