§346-352  Preauthorization exemption for certain physicians and physician assistants.  [Repeal and reenactment on July 1, 2013.  L 2007, c 92, §5.]  Any physician or physician assistant licensed in this State who treats a medicaid recipient patient suffering from the human immunodeficiency virus, acquired immune deficiency syndrome, or hepatitis C, or who is a patient in need of transplant immunosuppressives, may prescribe any medications approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration and that are eligible pursuant to the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Rebates Act and necessary to treat the condition, without having to comply with the requirements of any preauthorization procedure established by any other provision of this chapter. [L 2005, c 241, pt of §1; am L 2007, c 92, §2; am L 2009, c 151, §16]

 

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  The L 2009, c 151 amendment is exempt from the repeal and reenactment condition of L 2007, c 92.  L 2012, c 34, §16.