HOUSE AMENDMENT

    hbd-08                           Bill No. CS/CS/HBs 769 & 1087

    Amendment No.     (for drafter's use only)

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11  Representative(s) Kelly offered the following:

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13         Amendment to Amendment (225663) (with title amendment) 

14         On page 3, line 24, through page 4, line 1,

15  remove from the amendment:  all of said lines

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17  and insert in lieu thereof:

18         Section 2.  Medicare prescription discount program.--

19         (1)  As a condition of participation in the Florida

20  Medicaid Program or the pharmaceutical expense assistance

21  program, a pharmacy must agree to charge any individual who is

22  a Medicare beneficiary and who is a Florida resident showing a

23  Medicare card when they present a prescription a price no

24  greater than the cost of ingredients equal to the average

25  wholesale price minus 9 percent, and a dispensing fee of

26  $4.50.

27         (2)  In lieu of the provisions of subsection (1), and

28  as a condition of participation in the Florida Medicaid

29  Program or the pharmaceutical expense assistance program, a

30  pharmacy must agree to:

31         (a)  Provide a private voluntary prescription discount

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                                                   HOUSE AMENDMENT

    hbd-08                           Bill No. CS/CS/HBs 769 & 1087

    Amendment No.     (for drafter's use only)





 1  program to state residents who are Medicare beneficiaries; or

 2         (b)  Accept a private voluntary discount prescription

 3  program from state residents who are Medicare beneficiaries.

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 5  Discounts under this subsection must be at least as great as

 6  discounts under subsection (1).

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10  And the title is amended as follows:

11         On page 5, lines 3 through 5, of the amendment

12  remove:  all of said lines

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15         under the program; establishing a prescription

16         discount program for Medicare recipients;

17         requiring pharmacy participation as a condition

18         for a pharmacy's participation in the

19         pharmaceutical expense assistance program;

20         providing individual eligibility; providing

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