File Code: Public Health
Prior Year Introduction As: SB 649/00 - FIN
- Sponsored By:
-
Senators Middleton, Hogan, Hollinger, Neall, Stoltzfus, and
Green
- Entitled:
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Pharmacies - Discounts for Medicare Beneficiaries
Requiring pharmacies, as a condition of participation in the Maryland
Medical Assistance Program, to charge Medicare beneficiaries a price
for prescriptions that does not exceed the Program's reimbursement
rate for prescription medicines; requiring the Department of Health
and Mental Hygiene to provide a mechanism to calculate and transmit
the price of the prescription to the participating pharmacies;
requiring the Department to monitor pharmacy participation; providing
for an annual report and the termination of the program; etc.
Senate Action
- 1/17
- First Reading Finance
- 1/31
- Hearing 2/13 at 1:00 p.m.
- 3/14
- Withdrawn
House Action
- No Action
- Sponsored by:
- Senator Thomas M. Middleton, District 28
- Senator Leo E. Green, District 23
- Senator Patrick J. Hogan, District 39
- Senator Paula C. Hollinger, District 11
- Senator Robert R. Neall, District 33
- Senator J. Lowell Stoltzfus, District 38
- Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- DRUGS -see also- CONTROLLED DANGEROUS SUB; SUBSTANCE ABUSE
- ELDERLY PERSONS
- ELECTRONIC COMMERCE -see also- ELECTRONIC FUNDS TRANSFER
- HEALTH AND MENTAL HYGIENE, DEPARTMENT OF
- LEGISLATIVE SERVICES, DEPARTMENT OF
- MEDICAL ASSISTANCE
- PHARMACISTS
- PRICES -see also- CONSUMER PRICE INDEX
- REPORTS
- SUNSET
- Bill affects the following Statute:
- Health Occupations
- (
12-508
)
- Bill Text:
First Reading (PDF),
Third Reading, Enrolled
- Fiscal Note:
Available (PDF)
- Amendments:
None offered