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House Health Committee advances bill letting patients take home certain partially used hospital medications
Summary
The House Health Committee reported House Bill 446, as amended, which would require hospitals and ambulatory surgical facilities to offer patients remaining portions of specific medications administered and billed for, with labeling, counseling and liability protections included.
House Bill 446, sponsored by Representative Sanchez, was reported affirmatively from the House Health Committee after the panel adopted amendment A01274 narrowing the measure’s scope to hospitals and ambulatory surgical facilities and adding labeling, counseling and liability protections.
The bill, summarized by committee staffer Dylan, "amends the health care facilities act to require health care facilities to offer patients the remaining portions of medications that they were administered and billed for." The legislation lists topical antibiotics, anti-inflammatories, eye drops or ointments used…
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