The Board of Pharmacy is scheduled to meet via teleconference on June 18, 2020. Link to agenda – https://www.pharmacy.ca.gov/meetings/agendas/2020/20_jun_bd.pdf
Also in California... The Department of Health Care Services that manages the Medi-Cal fee-for-service program announced the annual check-write two-week delay. Medi-Cal fee-for-service providers scheduled with a warrant date of June 18, 2020, will be deferred until July 2, 2020, a day after the start of the new fiscal year.
Also in California… Assembly Member Jim Wood’s bill AB 2100 that NACDS, the California Retailers Association and the California Pharmacists Association strongly support passed off the Assembly floor on June 6th by a 62-0 vote. bill requires the Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) to contract with a vendor to survey specialty drug price information for the purpose of determining the actual acquisition costs (AACs) for specialty drugs. It also requires DHCS to provide a disease management payment to a pharmacy pursuant to a contract with DHCS for the costs and activities associated with dispensing specialty drugs. The bill corrects the “below-acquisition cost” reimbursement issue caused by the new methodology mandated by the Affordable Care Act in 2016. Further it repeals the Medi-Cal fee-for-service (FFS) limit of no more than six prescribed drugs per month unless prior authorization is received and repeals the Medi-Cal $1 copayment.
For more information, contact NACDS’ Mary Staples at 817-442-1155.