Medicaid Access to Parenteral Nutrition

Infusion pharmacies supply medicaid members with parenteral nutrition, which provides patients with essential nutrients through an intravenous infusion.

The bill requires the state department of health care policy and financing (state department) to ensure policies and reimbursement levels for infusion pharmacies for the preparation and dispensing of parenteral nutrition are sufficient to encourage an adequate level of market participation among infusion pharmacies.

The bill requires the state department to annually report on the adequacy of the infusion pharmacy network that supplies parenteral nutrition to medicaid members.

(Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.)