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House adopts technical and reimbursement clarifications for pharmacy payments in SB 140
Summary
Lawmakers amended Senate Bill 140 to correct terminology and to set pharmacy reimbursement based on reported acquisition cost plus a Medicaid dispensing fee rather than a national average drug cost.
The House took up Senate Bill 140 on second reading and considered multiple technical and reimbursement amendments. Representative Carball (floor) presented an amendment that "really has 2 parts": a technical correction replacing the term "drugstore" with "pharmacy" and clarifying references to third‑party administrator contracts instead of pharmacy‑benefit‑manager contracts for employers of…
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