70.967 Public Notification of Expired Pharmaceuticals: MSSNY will aggressively pursue legislation which would mandate the placement of expiration dates on prescription drug labels as stipulated in Resolution 95-62, 96-60, reaffirmed in Resolution 99-63. MSSNY will remind all physicians through their usual publications that all prescribed medications are to be utilized within a reasonable period of
70.966 Mandatory Acceptance of the Currently Utilized Physician Prescription Form by Pharmacy Benefit Plan Administration: SUNSET HOD 2013
70.965 Coverage for Brand Name Medications as Prescribed by Physicians: MSSNY must aggressively pursue enactment of MSSNY Policies 70.974 (Restrictive Formulary Medication Benefit Plans); 70.976 (Continued Coverage for Prescription Medications from Health Plan Drug Formularies); 70.977 (Restrictive Formulary Drug Prescription Sanction Through Managed Care); and 165.941 (Coordination of Pharmacy Benefit Into Existing Health Plans). Enactment
70.964 Pharmacies Should Be Required to Accept Faxed Prescriptions for Non-controlled Substances: SUNSET HOD 2023
70.963 Electronic Prescription System: SUNSET HOD 2014
70.962 Two-Part Official Prescriptions: SUNSET HOD 2015
70.961 NYS Prescription Pads: MSSNY opposes any effort present or future to require physicians to pay a fee for the official prescription forms supplied by the state; and work to assure that an adequate supply of prescription forms are provided to each physician or licensed allied medical practitioner. (HOD 2005-97; Reaffirmed HOD 2015; Reaffirmed HOD
70.960 Cancellation or Rescission of Renewals after the Prescriptions Have Been Delivered to the Pharmacy: MSSNY will seek appropriate measures including, if necessary, legislation to assure the ability of a physician to cancel or rescind a prescription for a patient if deemed warranted by the patient’s treating physician. (HOD 2010-60, Reaffirmed HOD 2020)
70.959 Pharmacy Benefit Managers’ or Payors’ Interference with the Course of Good Treatment and Requiring the Provision of Dangerous Quantities of Medicine: MSSNY is to: a) seek legislation and/or regulation prohibiting a payor or Pharmacy Benefit Manager (PBM) from either requiring a prescription to be filled with a quantity greater than that which is prescribed by a patient’s
70.957 List of Patients’ Medications Provided by Pharmacists: MSSNY will encourage all pharmacies licensed in New York State to provide individuals with a complete listing of all their medications each time a prescription is filled. This list of medications provided by the pharmacist to a patient would include the name of the drug (brand and generic,
