2005 Connecticut Code - Sec. 19a-7j. Vaccines and antibiotic purchase and childhood immunization registry. Health and welfare fee assessment. Appeal. Limit on aggregate assessment.
Sec. 19a-7j. Vaccines and antibiotic purchase and childhood immunization
registry. Health and welfare fee assessment. Appeal. Limit on aggregate assessment. (a) Not later than September 1, 2003, and annually thereafter, the Secretary of
the Office of Policy and Management, in consultation with the Commissioner of Public
Health, shall (1) determine the amount appropriated for the following purposes: (A)
To purchase, store and distribute vaccines for routine immunizations included in the
schedule for active immunization required by section 19a-7f; (B) to purchase, store and
distribute (i) vaccines to prevent hepatitis A and B in persons of all ages, as recommended
by the schedule for immunizations published by the National Advisory Committee for
Immunization Practices, (ii) antibiotics necessary for the treatment of tuberculosis and
biologics and antibiotics necessary for the detection and treatment of tuberculosis infections, and (iii) antibiotics to support treatment of patients in communicable disease
control clinics, as defined in section 19a-216a; and (C) to provide services needed to
collect up-to-date information on childhood immunizations for all children enrolled in
Medicaid who reach two years of age during the year preceding the current fiscal year,
to incorporate such information into the childhood immunization registry, as defined
in section 19a-7h, and (2) inform the Insurance Commissioner of such amount.
(c) Any domestic insurer or health care center aggrieved by an assessment levied under this section may appeal therefrom in the same manner as provided for appeals under section 38a-52.
(d) For the fiscal year ending June 30, 2004, the aggregate assessment under this section shall not exceed seven million one hundred thousand dollars. For the fiscal year ending June 30, 2005, the aggregate assessment under this section shall not exceed seven million one hundred thousand dollars.
(June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-3, S. 6.)
History: June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-3 effective August 20, 2003.
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