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ROBERT L. EHRLICH, JR., Governor
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Ch. 282
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CHAPTER 282
(House Bill 324)
AN ACT concerning
Senior Prescription Drug Program—Modifications
Maryland Pharmacy Programs - Modifications and Subsidies for Medicare
Drug Benefits
FOR the purpose of renaming the Senior Prescription Drug Program to be the Senior
Prescription Drug Assistance Program; altering the eligibility requirements for
and purpose of the Senior Prescription Drug Program; requiring the Program to
provide a State subsidy for the cost of a portion of Medicare Part D premiums,
deductibles, and coinsurance or Medicare Advantage Plan premiums and
deductibles; authorizing the Board of Directors of the Maryland Health
Insurance Plan to reduce or limit copayments for certain enrollees; establishing
priority for funding, if moneys in a certain account are insufficient to cover
certain costs; altering the purpose for which the Board shall reimburse the
Program Administrator altering the amount of the subsidy a certain nonprofit
health service plan is required to provide to the Program; repealing the
requirement that a certain nonprofit health service plan administer the
Program; requiring the Board of Directors of the Maryland Health Insurance
Plan to contract with a third party to administer the Program; specifying the
amount of the subsidy provided to enrollees by the Program; requiring an
enrollee to pay a certain copayment or coinsurance amount; requiring the
Program to establish a certain subsidy limit; altering the method of payment to
the Program Administrator; repealing a requirement that certain rebates or
other discounts inure to the benefit of the Program and be deposited to the
Maryland Health Insurance Plan Fund; repealing a certain termination
provision; altering certain eligibility requirements for the Maryland Pharmacy
Assistance Program; repealing the Maryland Pharmacy Discount Program;
establishing the Medicare Option Prescription Drug Program; establishing the
purpose, administration, operation, and eligibility requirements of the Medicare
Option Prescription Drug Program; authorizing the Secretary of Health and
Mental Hygiene to administer the Medicare Option Prescription Drug Program
as part of the Maryland Medical Assistance Program; authorizing the
Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to take certain actions; requiring the
Medicare Option Prescription Drug Program to provide benefits to certain
individuals; requiring the Secretary to adopt regulations to implement the
Medicare Option Prescription Drug Program; extending the termination date of
the Senior Prescription Drug Program until a certain date; authorizing the
Board of Directors of the Maryland Health Insurance Plan to automatically
transfer certain enrollees of the Senior Prescription Drug Program into the
Senior Prescription Drug Assistance Program; authorizing the Board of
Directors of the Maryland Health Insurance Plan to automatically assign
certain enrollees to a Medicare Part D plan under certain circumstances, and to
extend certain benefits to certain enrollees until a certain date, subject to
certain limitations; providing that it is the intent of the General Assembly that
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