VOTE YES FOR HB 1351

ATTENTION INDEPENDENT PHARMACISTS AND PHARMACY OWNERS!

THE FIGHT FOR PRESCRIPTION DRUG MEDICAID MANAGED CARE CARVE-OUT IS ON!

Dear GPhA/AIP Member,

Representative Knight’s Medicaid Carve-Out Bill, HB 1351, has been introduced and will be heard by the House Special Committee on Access to Quality Healthcare today at 3:00 pm. The stakes for independent pharmacy in Georgia couldn’t be higher and the MCOs and PBMs are coming out in force to kill this legislation.

Please reach out to every member of the Special Committee on Access to Quality Healthcare committee members via phone or email TODAY and let them know:

PBM and MCO practices are putting your pharmacy in jeopardy;
PBM and MCOs continue to engage in opaque drug pricing and benefit management practices including retroactive fees and patient steering;
HB 1351 will;
1. Take away prescription drug benefit administration from Medicaid MCOs;
2. Increase transparency and fairness by putting prescription drug benefits back info Medicaid FFS where most drugs are reimbursed at NADAC + a fair dispensing fee based on pharmacy costs to dispense; and
3. A carve-out will increase transparency, reign in abusive practices, and treat pharmacies and patients fairly.

Finally,