CHAPTER 29

S.P. 249 - L.D. 711

Resolve, To Lower the Costs of Prescription Drugs through

the Use of the Federal Public Health Service Act

Sec. 1. Study and report. Resolved: That the Department of Human Services shall study and by January 1, 2004 shall provide a report to the Joint Standing Committee on Health and Human Services on the feasibility of providing discounted prescription drugs to Maine's most vulnerable patient populations through the use of Section 340B of the federal Public Health Service Act, 42 United States Code, Section 256b (1999), referred to in this resolve as "Section 340B." The department shall work with other state agencies, representatives of state employees and representatives of health care providers and facilities in the State to provide the following information:

1. Covered entities. A description of all health care providers and facilities in the State potentially eligible for designation as "covered entities" under Section 340B, including without limitation all hospitals eligible as disproportionate share hospitals; recipients of grants from the United States Public Health Service; federally qualified health centers; federally qualified look-alikes; state-operated AIDS drug assistance programs; Ryan White CARE Act Title I, Title II and Title III programs; tuberculosis, black lung, family planning and sexually transmitted disease clinics; hemophilia treatment centers; public housing primary care clinics; and clinics for homeless people;