SENATE DOCKET, NO. 1154        FILED ON: 1/14/2009

SENATE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 589

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Nine

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An Act relative to insurance benefits of organ transplant recipients..

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
 

SECTION 1. Section 12D of Chapter 112 of the General Laws is hereby amended by adding at the end thereof the following:

In the case where the patient is covered by MassHealth pursuant to MGL Chapter 118E, if said patient is prescribed an immunosuppressant drug for the treatment of an organ transplant, the pharmacist shall be required to notify the physician when any substitution is made.