Legislative Session number- 84

Bill Name: SF0973

1E Requiring and providing for medical assistance (MA) coverage for medication
therapy management services for certain recipients, defining medication therapy
management; specifying pharmacist requirements for eligibility for reimbursement
services; specifying certain requirements for pharmacist eligibility for
reimbursement, authorizing the commissioner of human services to enroll
individual pharmacists as medical assistance providers and to establish contract
requirements between pharmacists and recipients; requiring the commissioner to
establish a temporary medication therapy management advisory committee for
advice on the implementation and administration of the services, specifying
certain committee membership requirements; requiring commissioner evaluation of
the effect of medication therapy management on quality of care, patient outcomes
and program costs, requiring inclusion of savings generated and a report to the
legislature by a certain date, authorizing a contract with a vendor or an
academic institution with expertise in evaluating health care outcomes to
complete the evaluation
(ra, ja)