CHAPTER 262
SB 45 – FINAL VERSION
03/14/13 0734s
2013 SESSION
01/04
SENATE BILL 45
AN ACT relative to electronic prescriptions.
SPONSORS: Sen. Stiles, Dist 24; Sen. Reagan, Dist 17; Sen. Boutin, Dist 16
COMMITTEE: Health, Education and Human Services
This bill declares that a prescription subject to the 48-hour exception process under RSA 420-J:7-b shall be considered approved and shall be filled if the exception process exceeds the 48-hour period.
This bill is the result of the committee established in 2011, 117 as amended by 2012, 109.
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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.
Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]
Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
03/14/13 0734s
13-0456
01/04
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Thirteen
AN ACT relative to electronic prescriptions.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
262:1 Managed Care Law; Prescriptions. Amend RSA 420-J:7-b, II to read as follows:
II. Every health benefit plan that provides prescription drug benefits shall maintain an expeditious exception process, not to exceed 48 hours, by which covered persons may obtain coverage for a medically necessary nonformulary prescription drug. The exception process shall begin when the prescribing provider has provided the health benefit plan with the clinical rationale for the exception. The exception process shall begin when the prescribing provider has submitted a request with a clinical rationale for the exception to the health benefit plan. A prescription that requires an exception for coverage shall be considered approved if the exception process exceeds 48 hours.
262:2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.
Approved: July 24, 2013
Effective Date: September 22, 2013