Florida Senate - 2014                                    SB 1266
       
       
        
       By Senator Montford
       
       
       
       
       
       3-00977A-14                                           20141266__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to the state employees’ prescription
    3         drug program; reenacting and amending s. 110.12315(2),
    4         F.S., relating to the state employees’ prescription
    5         drug program; deleting a requirement that the
    6         Department of Management Services base its decision as
    7         to whether to implement a certain 90-day supply limit
    8         on a determination that it would be in the best
    9         financial interest of the state; revising the pharmacy
   10         dispensing fee; authorizing a retail pharmacy to fill
   11         a 90-day supply of certain drugs; repealing s. 54(1),
   12         ch. 2013-41, Laws of Florida, providing for the
   13         reversion of provisions relating to the state
   14         employees’ prescription drug program; providing an
   15         effective date.
   16          
   17  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   19         Section 1. Subsection (2) of section 110.12315, Florida
   20  Statutes, is reenacted and amended to read:
   21         110.12315 Prescription drug program.—The state employees’
   22  prescription drug program is established. This program shall be
   23  administered by the Department of Management Services, according
   24  to the terms and conditions of the plan as established by the
   25  relevant provisions of the annual General Appropriations Act and
   26  implementing legislation, subject to the following conditions:
   27         (2) In providing for reimbursement of pharmacies for
   28  prescription medicines dispensed to members of the state group
   29  health insurance plan and their dependents under the state
   30  employees’ prescription drug program:
   31         (a) Retail pharmacies participating in the program must be
   32  reimbursed at a uniform rate and subject to uniform conditions,
   33  according to the terms and conditions of the plan.
   34         (b) There is shall be a 30-day supply limit for
   35  prescription card purchases and a 90-day supply limit for mail
   36  order or mail order prescription drug purchases. The Department
   37  of Management Services may implement a 90-day supply limit
   38  program for certain maintenance drugs as determined by the
   39  department at retail pharmacies participating in the program if
   40  the department determines it to be in the best financial
   41  interest of the state.
   42         (c) The current pharmacy dispensing fee shall be the lesser
   43  of:
   44         1. $4.28 for each prescription filled at retail;
   45         2. $4.22 for each prescription filled at mail order or by a
   46  specialty pharmacy; or
   47         3. The amount negotiated by the department for a 90-day
   48  supply of a prescription of a drug on the mandatory maintenance
   49  drug list which is filled at a retail pharmacy remains in
   50  effect.
   51         (d) A retail pharmacy may fill a 90-day supply of a
   52  prescription of a drug on the mandatory maintenance drug list in
   53  accordance with subparagraph (c)3.
   54         Section 2. Subsection (1) of section 54 of chapter 2013-41,
   55  Laws of Florida, is repealed.
   56         Section 3. This act shall take effect July 1, 2014.