Long-Term Care Patient Access to Pharmaceuticals

Long-Term Care Patient Access to Pharmaceuticals SSL Draft

Summary:

This Act provides a mechanism to enable patients with the ability to acquire lower cost drugs through the Veterans‘ Administration to access those drugs if those patients reside in a different long-term care facility. This means permitting the pharmacy within the long-term care facility or which has a contract with the long-term care facility to receive the lower cost drugs directly from the Veterans‘ Administration Drug Benefit Program in the patient's name and repackage and re-label those drugs so they may be dispensed in unit doses to the patient.

Submitted as:
Pennsylvania
HB2034
Status: Enacted into law in 2008.

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