The NYSPA Report: Medicaid’s Fragmented Formularies

• By: Barry B. Perlman, MD Jessica Daniels, MD
• January 1st, 2013
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To control the spiraling cost of medications to the NYS Medicaid program, the NYS budget adopted during 2011 radically altered the way the program purchased and paid for that formulary. The previously unified Medicaid formulary was fragmented such that each Medicaid HMO was required to define and...