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2013 SESSION

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Senate Committee on Education and Health
Subcommittee Health Care

Newman (Chairman), Northam, Miller, Black, Garrett

Clerk: Patty Lung, Cheryl Law
Staff: Thomas Stevens, Ryan Brimmer
Date of Meeting: January 22, 2013
Time and Place: 1/2 Hour After Adjour. - 3rd Fl. East
Revised to add SB1285

S.B. 709

Patron: Hanger

Regulations applicable to restaurants; concession stands at youth athletic activities exempt. Exempts concession stands at youth athletic activities from regulations governing restaurants, provided that such concession stands are promoted or sponsored either by a youth athletic association or by any charitable nonprofit organization or group thereof that has been recognized as being a part of the recreational program of the political subdivision where the association or organization is located by an ordinance or resolution of such political subdivision.

S.B. 973

Patron: Black

Medical assistance services;fraud prevention; provider information database. Directs the Department of Medical Assistance Services to develop and maintain a database of all health care providers currently eligible for reimbursement for medical assistance services provided under the state plan for medical assistance and the Family Access to Medical Insurance Security Plan, and a program for checking each claim for reimbursement against the database prior to payment to verify eligibility of the provider seeking reimbursement and identify improper claims for payments.

S.B. 974

Patron: Blevins

Nursing homes and certified nursing facilities; electronic monitoring by patients. Provides that the governing body of a nursing home or certified nursing facility shall ensure that each patient admitted to the facility is informed of the right of any patient to implement electronic monitoring in the room in which he resides, the right of any patient to consent or refuse to consent to electronic monitoring in any room in which he resides, and the options available to any patient in cases in which he refuses to consent to electronic monitoring; directs the Board of Health to include in regulations governing nursing homes and certified nursing facilities provisions for the use of electronic monitoring devices by patients in nursing homes and certified nursing facilities that protect the rights of patients; and provides that no person shall be discharged or transferred from a nursing home or certified nursing facility solely because he implements electronic monitoring in any room in which he resides.

S.B. 1006

Patron: Barker

Individual incapable of making an informed decision; procedure for physical evidence recovery kit examination. Provides that a licensed health care provider may perform a physical evidence recovery kit examination for a person who is believed to be the victim of a sexual assault and who is incapable of making an informed decision regarding consent to such examination when there is an immediate need to conduct the examination, no legally authorized representative is available to provide consent, and a capacity reviewer provides written certification that the person is incapable of providing informed consent and that the examination should be performed.

S.B. 1088

Patron: McWaters

Medicaid; coordinated long-term care. Directs the Director of the Department of Medical Assistance Services to develop and implement a statewide, fully integrated managed care long-term care program that is risk-based and integrates Medicaid-reimbursed primary, acute, behavioral health, and long-term care services. The long-term care program shall expand access to and utilization of cost-effective home and community-based alternatives to institutional care for Medicaid-eligible individuals. The program shall include an institutional transition initiative. Managed-care entities shall develop a need-based methodology for reimbursement of nursing facility services.

S.B. 1250

Patron: Puckett

Designation and reporting of drugs of concern. Authorizes the Board of Pharmacy to identify "drugs of concern" and requires prescribers to report prescription drugs of concern to the Prescription Monitoring Program.

S.B. 1252

Patron: Northam

Policies on concussions in student athletes. Requires each non-interscholastic youth sports program utilizing public school property or some other public playground, athletic field, or facility to establish policies and procedures regarding the identification and handling of suspected concussions in student-athletes. The bill adds definitions for "student-athlete" and "non-interscholastic youth sports program."

S.B. 1285

Patron: Newman

Dispensing of interchangeable biosimilar biological products. Permits pharmacists to dispense a biosimilar that has been licensed by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration as interchangeable with a prescribed biological product unless the prescriber indicates such substitution is not authorized or the patient insists on the dispensing of the prescribed biological product. The bill requires any pharmacist who dispenses an interchangeable biosimilar to inform the patient prior to dispensing the biosimilar and record the brand name or the product name and name of the manufacturer of the biosimilar on the record of dispensing and the prescription label.