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NY A07817
Bill
Status
4/11/2025
Primary Sponsor
Amy Paulin
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AI Summary
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Creates an exception to New York's Medicaid pharmacy benefit transition from managed care to fee-for-service for physicians who dispense medications in oncology settings under Education Law section 6807
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Allows oncology physicians authorized to dispense medications to continue operating under the managed care benefit package rather than being required to use the fee-for-service program
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Maintains the general requirement that the Department of Health remove pharmacy benefits from managed care and provide them under fee-for-service, except where federal law requires otherwise or the new oncology exception applies
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Takes effect immediately upon passage
Legislative Description
Relates to excepting situations where a physician or other licensed health care provider is authorized to dispense certain medications and is practicing medicine in the oncology setting and is dispensing oncology drugs or drugs related to an approved course of treatment used to manage symptoms related to cancer or cancer therapies.
Last Action
print number 7817a
3/10/2026