Florida Senate - 2014                             CS for SB 1266
       
       
        
       By the Committee on Governmental Oversight and Accountability;
       and Senators Montford and Garcia
       
       
       
       
       585-03729-14                                          20141266c1
    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; establishing a 90-day supply limit for
    6         retail and mail order prescription drug purchases for
    7         maintenance drugs; specifying that reimbursement for
    8         retail and mail orders may not exceed a certain
    9         amount; removing a provision authorizing the
   10         Department of Management Services to implement a 90
   11         day supply limit program under specified
   12         circumstances; revising the pharmacy dispensing fee;
   13         authorizing a retail pharmacy to fill a 90-day supply
   14         of certain drugs; repealing s. 54(1), ch. 2013-41,
   15         Laws of Florida, providing for the reversion of
   16         provisions relating to the state employees’
   17         prescription drug program; providing an effective
   18         date.
   19          
   20  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
   21  
   22         Section 1. Subsection (2) of section 110.12315, Florida
   23  Statutes, is reenacted and amended to read:
   24         110.12315 Prescription drug program.—The state employees’
   25  prescription drug program is established. This program shall be
   26  administered by the Department of Management Services, according
   27  to the terms and conditions of the plan as established by the
   28  relevant provisions of the annual General Appropriations Act and
   29  implementing legislation, subject to the following conditions:
   30         (2) In providing for reimbursement of pharmacies for
   31  prescription medicines dispensed to members of the state group
   32  health insurance plan and their dependents under the state
   33  employees’ prescription drug program:
   34         (a) Retail pharmacies participating in the program must be
   35  reimbursed at a uniform rate and subject to uniform conditions,
   36  according to the terms and conditions of the plan.
   37         (b) There is shall be a 30-day supply limit for
   38  prescription card purchases and a 90-day supply limit for retail
   39  and mail order or mail order prescription drug purchases for
   40  maintenance drugs. Reimbursement for retail and mail order
   41  purchases may not exceed the amount contracted by the department
   42  for prescriptions fulfilled by mail order The Department of
   43  Management Services may implement a 90-day supply limit program
   44  for certain maintenance drugs as determined by the department at
   45  retail pharmacies participating in the program if the department
   46  determines it to be in the best financial interest of the state.
   47         (c) The current pharmacy dispensing fee shall be the lesser
   48  of:
   49         1. $4.28 for each prescription filled at retail;
   50         2. $4.22 for each prescription filled at mail order or by a
   51  specialty pharmacy; or
   52         3. The amount negotiated by the department for a 90-day
   53  supply of a prescription of a drug on the mandatory maintenance
   54  drug list which is filled at a retail pharmacy remains in
   55  effect.
   56         (d) A retail pharmacy may fill a 90-day supply of a
   57  prescription of a drug on the mandatory maintenance drug list in
   58  accordance with subparagraph (c)3.
   59         Section 2. Subsection (1) of section 54 of chapter 2013-41,
   60  Laws of Florida, is repealed.
   61         Section 3. This act shall take effect July 1, 2014.