AN ACT relating to prescription drug coverage for seniors and Medicare beneficiaries.
     Create new sections of KRS 205.510 to 205.645 to require the Department for Medicaid Services to apply for a Medicaid waiver for outpatient prescription drug coverage for seniors and Medicare beneficiaries with incomes that do not exceed two hundred percent (200%) of the federal poverty level; create the Kentucky Senior Rx Program upon approval of the waiver; establish guidelines for phasing in the program; permit the department to establish enrollment or expenditure caps and cost sharing requirements; establish a Kentucky Senior Rx fund; and require manufacturer rebates and other fees collected in association with the program to be deposited in this fund.

     (Prefiled by the sponsor(s))

     Jan 7-introduced in Senate
     Jan 10-to Health and Welfare (S)