Kansas Statutes Chapter 39. Mentally Ill, Incapacitated and Dependent Persons; Social Welfare § 39-7,121a. State medicaid preferred drug formulary; advisory committee; evaluation of drugs and drug classes; rebates; discounts and services; review of formulary

(a) The department of health and environment may establish an advisory committee pursuant to K.S.A. 75-5616, and amendments thereto, to advise the department of health and environment in the development of a preferred formulary listing of covered drugs by the state medicaid program.

(b) The department of health and environment shall evaluate drugs and drug classes for inclusion in the state medicaid preferred drug formulary based on safety, effectiveness and clinical outcomes of such treatments. In addition, the department of health and environment shall evaluate drugs and drug classes to determine whether inclusion of such drugs or drug classes in a starter dose program would be clinically efficacious and cost effective. If the factors of safety, effectiveness and clinical outcomes among drugs being considered in the same class indicate no therapeutic advantage, then the department of health and environment shall consider the cost effectiveness and the net economic impact of such drugs in making recommendations for inclusion in the state medicaid preferred drug formulary. Drugs which do not have a significant, clinically meaningful therapeutic advantage in terms of safety, effectiveness or clinical outcomes over other drugs in the same class which have been selected for the preferred drug formulary may be excluded from the preferred drug formulary and may be subject to prior authorization in accordance with state and federal law, except, prior to July 1, 2003, where a prescriber has personally written “dispense as written” or “D.A.W.,” or has signed the prescriber's name on the “dispense as written” signature line in accordance with K.S.A. 65-1637, and amendments thereto.

(c) The department of health and environment shall consider the net economic impact of drugs selected or excluded from the preferred formulary and may gather information on the costs of specific drugs, rebates or discounts pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1396r-8, dispensing costs, dosing requirements and utilization of other drugs or other medicaid health care services.

(d) The department of health and environment may accept all services, including, but not limited to, disease state management, associated with the delivery of pharmacy benefits under the state medicaid program having a determinable cost effect in addition to the medicaid prescription drug rebates required pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1396r-8.

(e) The state medicaid preferred drug formulary shall be submitted to the medicaid drug utilization review board for review and policy recommendations.