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JCAR members press BWC on changes to outpatient medication formulary; officials say workers and providers will be notified
Summary
Representative Brenner raised concerns about the Bureau of Workers' Compensation's updated outpatient medication formulary appendix during a Joint Committee on Agency Rule Review meeting, asking whether prescriptions covered under the old appendix could lose coverage under the new version.
Representative Brenner raised concerns about the Bureau of Workers' Compensation's updated outpatient medication formulary appendix during a Joint Committee on Agency Rule Review meeting, asking whether prescriptions covered under the old appendix could lose coverage under the new version.
Pete Mahaley, director of enterprise legal services at the Bureau of Workers' Compensation, said the bureau maintains a formulary and a Pharmacy and Therapeutics (P&T) committee that recommends which drugs the bureau should cover. "We started out back in 02/2011 by looking at every drug we had paid for in the last 3 years," Mahaley said, and the bureau rescinds the prior appendix and enacts a new one with only the changes recommended by the…
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