Washington State Drops Budget Provision That Would Have Cut Medicaid Pharmacy Payments

Washington state lawmakers this week eliminated a budgetary proposal that would have reduced Medicaid payment rates to pharmacies to the lowest levels in the country, the AP/Spokane Spokesman-Review reports. The provision would have reduced the payment rate from 86% to 80% of the average wholesale price of branded drugs.

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Filed under: Medicare / Medicaid / Tricare on May 18th, 2009