It is estimated over 240,000 West Virginian's are diagnosed with living with type 1 or type 2 diabetes and another 65,000 are not diagnosed. Every West Virginian with type 1 diabetes and many with type 2 diabetes rely on daily doses of insulin to survive. The annual medical cost related to [Read more...]
House Bill 4062 reduces the cost of prescription drugs and requires certain compensation received from a pharmaceutical manufacturer, developer or labeler to be used for benefit of covered persons. The purpose of this bill is to reduce the cost of prescription drugs by requiring a pharmacy [Read more...]
House Bill 4227 - Referred to the Committee on Health and Human Resources then the Judiciary. The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Dept. of Health and Human Resources to promulgate a legislative rule relating to pilot program for drug screening of applicants for cash assistance. This [Read more...]
Senate Bill 582 introduced by eleven Senators on January 22, imposes additional conditions to the Pharmacy Audit Integrity Act -- introduced earlier in House Bill 4058. The addition defines "maximum allowable cost" to mean "a maximum drug product reimbursement for an individual drug or a group [Read more...]