249J.18  Clinicians advisory panel — clinical management.
  1.   The medical director of the Iowa Medicaid enterprise, with the approval of the administrator of the division of medical services of the department, shall assemble and act as chairperson for a clinicians advisory panel to recommend to the department clinically appropriate health care utilization management and coverage decisions for the medical assistance program and the expansion population which are not otherwise addressed by the Iowa medical assistance drug utilization review commission created pursuant to section 249A.24 or the medical assistance pharmaceutical and therapeutics committee established pursuant to section 249A.20A. The meetings shall be conducted in accordance with chapter 21 and shall be open to the public except to the extent necessary to prevent the disclosure of confidential medical information.
  2.  The medical director of the Iowa Medicaid enterprise shall prepare an annual report summarizing the recommendations made by the panel and adopted by rule of the department regarding clinically appropriate health care utilization management and coverage under the medical assistance program and the expansion population.
2005 Acts, ch 167, §19, 66; 2006 Acts, ch 1030, §30; 2010 Acts, ch 1141, §14