Kansas Statutes Chapter 39. Mentally Ill, Incapacitated and Dependent Persons; Social Welfare § 39-7,118. Drug utilization review program

(a) Monitoring of prescription information including overutilization and underutilization of prescription-only drugs;

(b) making periodic reports of findings and recommendations to the secretary of health and environment and the United States department of health and human services regarding the activities of the board, drug utilization review programs, summary of interventions, assessments of education interventions and drug utilization review cost estimates;

(c) providing for prospective and retrospective drug utilization review, as specified in the federal omnibus budget reconciliation act of 1990 (public law 101-508);

(d) monitoring provider and recipient compliance with program objectives;

(e) providing educational information on state program objectives, directly or by contract, to private and public sector health care providers to improve prescribing and dispensing practices;

(f) reviewing the increasing costs of purchasing prescription drugs and making recommendations on cost containment;

(g) reviewing profiles of medicaid beneficiaries who have multiple prescriptions above a level specified by the board; and

(h) recommending any modifications or changes to the medicaid prescription drug program.