Sensible Medicine
The Florida legislature recently passed a law that makes sense. It will allow people to refill prescriptions in an emergency, even if their insurer says they're not yet due for a refill:Recently, the Legislature passed the Emergency Prescription Refill bill (Florida Statute 252.358 and 462.0275). This law requires all insurers and managed-care organizations to suspend refill-too-soon restrictions when a patient seeks a refill in a county that:
In certain cases, simply telling people to "be prepared" is not enough. Sometimes you've got to remove obstacles for them. This law is a good example of that.
This law also allows patients outside of these areas to get an emergency 72-hour refill if the pharmacist is unable to readily obtain refill authorization from the doctor.
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I agree that this is very sensible legislation. Is anyone aware of similar legislation in other states? I live in MO and we don't really have a lot of advance notice that some of our emergencies are Imminent, so the language used in Florida would not be useful to us in all cases.
There are a number of people who have been iced in their homes or isolated because of flooding, who have run out of medications because they do not have the emergency supply on-hand because of the refill-too-soon restrictions. Any direction to existing laws would be very much appreciated.
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