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Bosland recounts personal fight for access to specialty drugs; committee asks counsel to draft bill guaranteeing patients can keep prescribed medications in in‑
Summary
Representative Michelle Bosland introduced H736, a short‑form bill to require inpatient facilities to allow patients to continue taking medically necessary prescription medications (including specialty pharmacy drugs); witnesses gave personal and hospital perspectives and the committee voted to request legislative counsel draft a standard‑form bill and schedule further testimony.
Representative Michelle Bosland introduced a short‑form bill on Feb. 20 intended to ensure people in inpatient settings may continue to take medically necessary medications prescribed by a licensed provider, including medicines obtained from specialty pharmacies.
Bosland told the committee she was diagnosed last November with a rare form of lung cancer and said the only treatment that controls the disease is a daily targeted therapy she must reorder two weeks in advance. "There are many medications that come from specialty pharmacies that hospitals and nursing facilities don't stock," Bosland said. She said H736 would put into statute a patient's ability to continue prescribed medications during inpatient stays so future policy changes would not make access harder.
Witnesses described both real‑world harms and existing practice. A witness…
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