6:00 am
Mon November 5, 2012

New Rule Continues Medicaid Burden on Independent Pharmacists



Then, they were angry over a lack of co-pays on drugs. Now, operator Coventry Cares has reversed course, claiming it will now charge co-pays.

But in doing so, Kentucky pharmacist Jason Wallace says the MCO's are just moving money around, not actually compensating pharmacists any better than before.

This is hardly a win because what they simply will do is deduct it from what they pay us, he says.


"I know we're talking about a dollar here, but when you're talking about the cost of dispensing a drug in the 10 to 11 dollar territory and we're being reimbursed somewhere around a dollar in terms of a dispensing fee, that extra dollar that we were talking about in House Bill 262, makes a big difference," Wallace says.

Wallace says with the defeat of that House bill, he and his fellow pharmacists are unsure of what their next direction is.