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Senate committee asks Medicaid to study pharmacist payment parity under SJR 26
Summary
The committee passed Senate Joint Resolution 26 directing the Department for Medicaid Services to provide interim data and cost estimates on paying pharmacists for clinical services under Medicaid and KCHIP so lawmakers can assess access and fiscal impact.
Sen. Craig Richardson, sponsor of Senate Joint Resolution 26, and Ben Mudd of the Kentucky Pharmacists Association told the Senate Standing Committee on Health Services that the resolution asks the Department for Medicaid Services to prepare data and a cost analysis on providing Medicaid and KCHIP reimbursement parity to pharmacists for clinical services already in their scope of practice.
“Pharmacists are integral to our health-care system,” Ben Mudd told the committee, saying the resolution does not expand pharmacists’…
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