Kentucky Pharmacists Event Urging Senate Minority Leader McConnell to Fix Flawed Medicaid Drug Reimburs...(lower than the overall AMP formula --...),Health

-- Requiring Medicaid payment be calculated using the weighted average

of the Medicaid generic drugs based on their actual utilization

-- Restoring the practice of using three available generic products

for the calculation; increases the maximum allowable reimbursement

from 250 percent of the AMP to 300 percent

-- Encouraging more inexpensive generic drug usage by requiring prior

authorization of brand name drugs.

CONTACT:

For more information contact Chip Riddleberger at 410-725-6024 or chip.riddleberger@ncpanet.org.