Text: H01249 Text: H01251 Text: H01200 - H01299 Text: H Index Bills and Amendments: General Index Bill History: General Index
PAG LIN
1 1 Amend the amendment, H-1216, to House File 619 as
1 2 follows:
1 3 #1. By striking page 2, line 37, through page 4,
1 4 line 32.
1 5 #2. By striking page 4, line 42, through page 5,
1 6 line 3, and inserting the following:
1 7 "2. a. A medical assistance pharmaceutical and
1 8 therapeutics committee shall be established within the
1 9 department by July 1, 2003, for the purpose of
1 10 developing and providing ongoing review of the
1 11 preferred drug list.
1 12 b. (1) The members of the committee shall be
1 13 appointed by the governor and shall include health
1 14 care professionals who possess recognized knowledge
1 15 and expertise in one or more of the following:
1 16 (a) The clinically appropriate prescribing of
1 17 covered outpatient drugs.
1 18 (b) The clinically appropriate dispensing and
1 19 monitoring of covered outpatient drugs.
1 20 (c) Drug use review, evaluation, and intervention.
1 21 (d) Medical quality assurance.
1 22 (2) The membership of the committee shall be
1 23 comprised of at least one third but not more than
1 24 fifty-one percent licensed and actively practicing
1 25 physicians and at least one third licensed and
1 26 actively practicing pharmacists.
1 27 c. The members shall be appointed to terms of two
1 28 years. Members may be appointed to more than one
1 29 term. The department shall provide staff support to
1 30 the committee. Committee members shall select a
1 31 chairperson and vice chairperson annually from the
1 32 committee membership."
1 33 #3. Page 5, by striking lines 27 through 29, and
1 34 inserting the following: "that if a medical
1 35 assistance program recipient was prescribed a mental
1 36 health-related drug, an antiretroviral drug, or a drug
1 37 related to the treatment of transplantation or cancer,
1 38 prior to the implementation of the".
1 39 #4. Page 6, by striking lines 25 and 26, and
1 40 inserting the following: "legislative fiscal
1 41 committee on a quarterly basis."
1 42 #5. Page 9, by inserting after line 6 the
1 43 following:
1 44 "e. The department shall report any savings
1 45 realized through the SMAC program to the legislative
1 46 fiscal committee on a monthly basis."
1 47 #6. Page 9, by striking lines 35 through 38, and
1 48 inserting the following: "paragraph "a", subparagraph
1 49 (2), if projected state fund expenditures for
1 50 reimbursement of nursing facilities for the fiscal
2 1 year beginning July 1, 2003, in".
2 2 #7. Page 9, line 41, by inserting before the words
2 3 "the department" the following: "exceeds
2 4 $147,252,856,".
2 5 #8. Page 9, by striking line 44, and inserting the
2 6 following: "projected."
2 7 #9. Page 11, by inserting after line 11 the
2 8 following:
2 9 "3. The department of human services shall, in any
2 10 compilation of data or other report distributed to the
2 11 public concerning payments to providers under the
2 12 medical assistance program, set forth reimbursements
2 13 to physicians of the university of Iowa college of
2 14 medicine through supplemental adjustments as a
2 15 separate item and shall not include such payments in
2 16 the amounts otherwise reported as the reimbursement to
2 17 a physician for services to medical assistance
2 18 recipients."
2 19 #10. Page 12, by inserting after line 20, the
2 20 following:
2 21 "___. The portion of the section of this Act
2 22 relating to the state maximum allowable cost (SMAC)
2 23 program, being deemed of immediate importance, takes
2 24 effect upon enactment."
2 25
2 26
2 27
2 28 CARROLL of Poweshiek
2 29 HF 619.303 80
2 30 pf/cf
Text: H01249 Text: H01251 Text: H01200 - H01299 Text: H Index Bills and Amendments: General Index Bill History: General Index
© 2003 Cornell College and League of Women Voters of Iowa
Comments about this site or page?
webmaster@legis.iowa.gov.
Please remember that the person listed above does not vote on bills. Direct all comments concerning legislation to State Legislators.
Last update: Thu Apr 3 02:30:38 CST 2003
URL: /DOCS/GA/80GA/Legislation/H/01200/H01250/030402.html
jhf