Governor Andrew Cuomo has signed State Senator Cathy Young's bill into law to ensure patients get appropriate medications determined by their doctors. The new law will establish protocols around an insurance industry practice known as step therapy or fail first prescribing. Young says the new law ensures greater control for doctors over the prescriptions administered to their patients. She says it will give doctors a standardized, transparent process to seek exceptions from step therapy when a patient needs a particular treatment, based on that individual's personal medical case.
State Senator Cathy Young
