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Current Status Bill Number:View additional legislative information at the LPITS web site.1275 Type of Legislation:General Bill GB Introducing Body:Senate Introduced Date:20000323 Primary Sponsor:Reese All Sponsors:Reese Drafted Document Number:l:\council\bills\dka\3794mm00.doc Residing Body:Senate Current Committee:Finance Committee 06 SF Subject:Prescription drug benefit plan, State health and medical insurance; Pharmacies and Pharmacists, Budget and Control Board History Body Date Action Description Com Leg Involved ______ ________ ______________________________________ _______ ____________ Senate 20000323 Introduced, read first time, 06 SF referred to Committee Versions of This Bill
TO AMEND THE CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, BY ADDING SECTION 1-11-765 SO AS TO REQUIRE THE STATE BUDGET AND CONTROL BOARD TO DEVISE AND IMPLEMENT A PLAN REVISING THE PRESCRIPTION DRUG BENEFIT FOR STATE HEALTH INSURANCE PLAN MEMBERS TO PROVIDE THAT THE COPAYMENT ON A PRESCRIPTION DRUG MAY BE PAID BY THE MEMBER AND THE BALANCE PAID TO THE PARTICIPATING PHARMACY BY THE PLAN TO COINCIDE WITH THE TIME PERIOD FOR WHICH THE DRUG IS PRESCRIBED RATHER THAN ONLY EVERY THIRTY-ONE DAYS, AND TO PROVIDE THAT A PRESCRIPTION DRUG SOLD BY ANY PHARMACY MANNED BY A PHARMACIST LICENSED BY THIS STATE BE COVERED BY THE PRESCRIPTION DRUG BENEFIT FOR THE STATE HEALTH INSURANCE PLAN.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:
SECTION 1. Article 5, Chapter 11, Title 1 of the 1976 Code is amended by adding:
"Section 1-11-765. (A) The State Budget and Control Board, through its Office of Insurance Services, shall devise a plan, for implementation no later than January 1, 2001, that allows members of the state health insurance plan to obtain prescription drugs upon payment to the participating pharmacy of the required copayment with the balance paid directly to the pharmacy in the manner that the Office of Insurance Services determines appropriate.
The plan must require that the copayment may be paid by the member in an amount to coincide with the time period for which the drug is prescribed, and the balance paid by the plan in the corresponding amount to the pharmacy.
(B) The plan must require also that a prescription drug sold by any pharmacy manned by a pharmacist licensed by this State be covered by the prescription drug benefit for the state health insurance plan."
SECTION 2. This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor.
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