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Senate rejects expansion of Medicaid preferred drug list to include mental-health drugs
Summary
After a contentious floor debate over clinical safeguards and cost savings, the Senate voted down first substitute SB 85 (Medicaid cost control amendments), which would have extended the state's preferred drug list to mental-health medications; vote: 6 yeas, 18 nays, 5 absent.
Senator Christensen presented first substitute SB 85, an extension of Utah's preferred drug list (PDL) to include certain mental-health medications for Medicaid patients. Christensen said the PDL had exceeded initial savings estimates and could yield additional savings by designating preferred drugs and obtaining rebates from manufacturers.
"We thought we were going to get $6,000,000 to $8,000,000. Since last…
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