HB 2583 - DIGEST

Authorizes pharmacies to provide a person with a refill of a drug prior to any time restriction for the prescription of that drug if: (1) There are authorized refills remaining;

(2) The person seeking the refill resides in a county that: (a) is under a flood warning issued by the national weather service; (b) is declared to be under a state of emergency as proclaimed by the governor; or (c) has activated its emergency operations center and its emergency management plan; and

(3) The refill is requested within thirty days after the origination date of the conditions described in subsection (2) above or until those conditions are terminated by the issuing authority or no longer exist.

Requires every health carrier that provides prescription medication coverage as part of a health plan to waive time restrictions on prescription medication refills to enable an enrollee to refill prescriptions prior to the time restriction, if there are authorized refills remaining, and to authorize payments to pharmacies for at least a thirty-day supply of any prescription medication, regardless of the date that the prescription had most recently been refilled by a pharmacy if the conditions listed above have been met.