House Journal: Page 947: Wednesday, April 2, 2003
9 department by July 1, 2003, for the purpose of
10 developing and providing ongoing review of the
11 preferred drug list.
12 b. (1) The members of the committee shall be
13 appointed by the governor and shall include health
14 care professionals who possess recognized knowledge
15 and expertise in one or more of the following:
16 (a) The clinically appropriate prescribing of
17 covered outpatient drugs.
18 (b) The clinically appropriate dispensing and
19 monitoring of covered outpatient drugs.
20 (c) Drug use review, evaluation, and intervention.
21 (d) Medical quality assurance.
22 (2) The membership of the committee shall be
23 comprised of at least one third but not more than
24 fifty-one percent licensed and actively practicing
25 physicians and at least one third licensed and
26 actively practicing pharmacists.
27 c. The members shall be appointed to terms of two
28 years. Members may be appointed to more than one
29 term. The department shall provide staff support to
30 the committee. Committee members shall select a
31 chairperson and vice chairperson annually from the
32 committee membership."
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33 3. Page 5, by striking lines 27 through 29, and
34 inserting the following: "that if a medical
35 assistance program recipient was prescribed a mental
36 health-related drug, an antiretroviral drug, or a drug
37 related to the treatment of transplantation or cancer,
38 prior to the implementation of the".
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39 4. Page 6, by striking lines 25 and 26, and
40 inserting the following: "legislative fiscal
41 committee on a quarterly basis."
42 5. Page 9, by inserting after line 6 the
43 following:
44 "e. The department shall report any savings
45 realized through the SMAC program to the legislative
46 fiscal committee on a monthly basis."
47 6. Page 9, by striking lines 35 through 38, and
48 inserting the following: "paragraph "a", subparagraph
49 (2), if projected state fund expenditures for
50 reimbursement of nursing facilities for the fiscal
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