2013 South Carolina Code of Laws
Title 44 - Health
CHAPTER 6 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
SECTION 44-6-630. Creation of GAPS program; purpose.
(A) There is created within the Department of Health and Human Services the Gap Assistance Pharmacy Program for Seniors (GAPS) program. The purpose of this program is to coordinate, beginning January 1, 2006, with Medicare Part D Prescription Drug Plans to provide to low-income seniors in this State assistance with costs for prescription drugs during the annual Medicare Part D coverage gap.
(B) The program must provide assistance with prescription drugs that:
(1) have been approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration; and
(2) are included in the enrollee's selected GAPS participating Medicare Part D Plan formulary.
HISTORY: 2003 Act No. 59, Section 1, eff June 18, 2003; 2006 Act No. 233, Section 1, eff February 21, 2006.
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