(a) The Agency of Human Services shall adopt rules necessary to implement and administer the provisions of this subchapter, including standards and schedules establishing coverage and exclusion of pharmaceuticals and maximum quantities of pharmaceuticals to be dispensed, and to comply with the requirements of the Medicare Modernization Act. The Agency of Human Services shall submit the proposed rule to the Health Care Oversight Committee. The Health Care Oversight Committee shall review and advise on the Agency rules and policies developed under this subsection and shall submit for consideration any recommendations to the joint Legislative Committee on Administrative Rules.

(b) DVHA shall report on the status of the pharmaceutical assistance programs established by this subchapter to the Health Care Oversight Committee. (Added 2005, No. 71, § 314; amended 2009, No. 156 (Adj. Sess.), § I.75; 2011, No. 171 (Adj. Sess.), § 41c.)