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Copayments for limited supplies of medications

Title VI: Veterans’ Assuring Critical Care Expansions to Support Servicemembers · Subtitle F: Other Health Care Matters

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Veterans will not have to pay copayments for opioid overdose reversal medications if they are at high risk of overdose. Additionally, veterans will not have to pay copayments for limited supplies of certain prescriptions up to 30 days when a healthcare professional would have prescribed more than seven days' supply if not for existing restrictions.

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Section Text · Sec. 672.
(4)

Paragraph (1) does not apply—

(A)

to opioid antagonists furnished under this chapter to a veteran who is at high risk for overdose of a specific medication or substance in order to reverse the effect of such an overdose; and

(B)

to any limited supply prescription for medication, up to a 30-day supply of such medication, under section 1730D(b) of this title if the covered health care professional would have prescribed, delivered, distributed, or dispensed a supply for more than seven days if not for the restrictions under such section.