CO SB027

State board must adopt rules allowing Medicaid recipients the option to receive prescribed maintenance medications for chronic conditions through mail order, including up to a three-month supply or the maximum allowed under federal law.

Eligible recipients include those with physical hardship preventing local pharmacy access and those with third-party insurance allowing mail order maintenance medications.

Pharmacies providing mail delivery must be enrolled as Medicaid providers and registered with the state board of pharmacy; copayment amounts must be the same whether recipients use mail order or local pharmacies.

State department must publish information on its website and in recipient handbooks stating that Medicaid recipients may choose any enrolled pharmacy, use local retail pharmacies for mail delivery when offered, and that copayments are uniform across all delivery methods.

Appropriations for fiscal year 2016-17 decreased by $9,084 in general funds, $409 from hospital provider fee cash fund, and $20,424 in federal funds; act takes effect August 10, 2016, subject to referendum petition provisions.