New Jersey § 52:14-17
Full text of New Jersey New Jersey Statutes § 52:14-17, with citation guidance and answers to common questions.
§ 52:14-17.
The School Employees' Health Benefits Commission shall ensure that every contract
under the School Employees' Health Benefits Program purchased on or after the effective
date of this act, 1 which provides benefits for pharmacy services, prescription drugs, or for participation
in a prescription drug plan, shall, on at least one occasion per year for each covered
person: (1) apply a prorated daily cost-sharing rate to prescriptions that are dispensed by
a network pharmacy for less than a 30 days' supply if the prescriber or pharmacist
indicates the fill or refill is in the best interest of the covered person or is for
the purpose of synchronizing the covered person's chronic medications; (2) provide coverage for a drug prescribed for the treatment of a chronic illness
dispensed in accordance with a plan among the covered person, the prescriber and the
pharmacist to synchronize the refilling of multiple prescriptions for the covered
person; and (3) determine dispensing fees based exclusively on the total number of prescriptions
dispensed; dispensing fees shall not be prorated or based on the number of the days'
supply of medication prescribed or dispensed. This section shall not apply to prescriptions for opioid analgesics. “ Opioid analgesic ” means a drug in the opioid analgesic drug class prescribed to treat moderate to
severe pain or other conditions, whether in immediate release or extended release
form, and whether or not combined with other drug substances to form a single drug
product or dosage form. 1
L.2015, c. 206, eff. July 9, 2016.
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Section 52:14-17 is part of the New Jersey Statutes, the codified statutory law of New Jersey. It sets out the legal rule or procedure described in the text above. Statutes are amended regularly, so always verify against the official source.
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