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Representative Ward advances substitute to include psychiatric medicines on Medicaid preferred drug list
Summary
Representative Ward presented a second-substitute to HB18 to add psychotropic medicines to Utah’s Medicaid Preferred Drug List, citing estimated annual savings ($3.7M state, $8.6M federal), grandfathering and physician-discretion protections, and an exemption for long-acting injectables; the House adopted the substitute and circled the bill for cleanup.
Representative Ward framed HB18 as a targeted change to reduce Medicaid spending on mental-health medications by allowing the Department of Health to include psychiatric drugs in the Medicaid Preferred Drug List (PDL).
He told colleagues Utah currently pays the full asking price for many psychotropic medications and that other states (47 of 50) include these medicines on their PDLs.…
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