N.Y. Workers' Compensation Law § 13-p: Comprehensive prescription drug formulary

§ 13-p. Comprehensive prescription drug formulary. The chair shall

establish a comprehensive prescription drug formulary on or before

December thirty-first, two thousand seventeen. The prescription drug

formulary shall include a tiered list of high-quality, cost-effective

medications that are pre-approved to be prescribed and dispensed, as

well as additional non-preferred drugs that can be prescribed with prior

approval. Such prescription drug formulary, shall include but not be

limited to implementation of a pharmacy reimbursement strategy,

administration of a prescription drug rebate program for formulary

drugs, a pre-approval program, drug utilization review, and limitations

on the prescribing of compounded medications and compounded topical

preparations. The board shall promulgate regulations to permit an

interested party to submit a request to the medical director of the

board to alter or amend the formulary to consider changing the status of

a drug from non-preferred to preferred. Regulations may include a

provision for reasonable costs and fees associated with the review.