Bill Text: NY A09937 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Prohibits managed care providers, under the medical assistance program, from requiring prior authorization for the dispensing of buprenorphine for treatment of opioid addiction.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-05-10 - reported referred to ways and means [A09937 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-A09937-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 9937--A IN ASSEMBLY April 28, 2016 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. ROSENTHAL -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to prohibiting prior authorization for the dispensing of buprenorphine for the treat- ment of opioid addiction 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 26-b to read as follows: 3 26-b. No managed care provider shall require prior authorization for 4 any prescription or renewal thereof for the dispensing of buprenorphine 5 which is prescribed as a treatment for opioid addiction. 6 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately, provided that the amend- 7 ment to section 364-j of the social services law, made by section one of 8 this act, shall not affect the expiration and repeal of such section, 9 and shall expire and be deemed repealed therewith. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD14865-03-6
