File Code: Public Health
Crossfiled with: HOUSE BILL 1336
- Sponsored By:
-
Senators Middleton, Hogan, Neall, and Stoltzfus
- Entitled:
-
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 pharmacy; requiring the
Department to monitor pharmacy participation with the requirements of
the Act; etc.
Senate Action
- 2/4
- First Reading Finance
- 2/8
- Hearing 3/3 at 1:00 p.m.
- 2/29
- Hearing cancelled
- Hearing 3/10 at 1:00 p.m.
- 3/7
- Hearing cancelled
- Hearing 3/14 at 1:00 p.m.
- 3/20
- Unfavorable Report by Finance
House Action
- No Action
- Sponsored by:
- Senator Thomas M. Middleton, District 28
- Senator Patrick J. Hogan, District 39
- 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 TRANSMISSION
- 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
