Year: 2007
Resolution Number: 18
Action Taken: Approved
Status:
Author(s): Cassandra M. Klyman, MD
Sponsor: Cassandra M. Klyman, MD
On behalf of: Oakland County Delegation
Committee: A (Medical Care Delivery)
Resolved Section(s):
RESOLVED: That the Michigan Delegation to the AMA ask the AMA to establish policy opposing the charging of patients more than one co-pay for multiple prescriptions of the same or varying doses of a long-term medication within a 90-day period when evidence-based medicine dictates that less than 90- day prescriptions should be written during the initialization and dose stabilization of a newly prescribed long-term medication or during change in dosing of a long-term medication currently being taken; and be it furtherRESOLVED: That the Michigan Delegation to the AMA ask the AMA to make mail-order pharmacies, appropriate insurance carriers, and pharmaceutical management companies aware of its policy opposing the charging of patients more than one co-pay for multiple prescriptions of the same or varying doses of a long-term medication within a 90-day period when evidence-based medicine dictates that less than 90-day prescriptions should be written during the initialization and dose stabilization of a newly prescribed long-term medication or during change in dosing of a long-term medication currently being taken.
RESOLVED: That the Michigan Delegation to the AMA ask the AMA to establish policy opposing the charging of patients more than one co-pay for multiple prescriptions of the same or varying doses of a long-term medication within a 90-day period when evidence-based medicine dictates that less than 90- day prescriptions should be written during the initialization and dose stabilization of a newly prescribed long-term medication or during change in dosing of a long-term medication currently being taken; and be it furtherRESOLVED: That the Michigan Delegation to the AMA ask the AMA to make mail-order pharmacies, appropriate insurance carriers, and pharmaceutical management companies aware of its policy opposing the charging of patients more than one co-pay for multiple prescriptions of the same or varying doses of a long-term medication within a 90-day period when evidence-based medicine dictates that less than 90-day prescriptions should be written during the initialization and dose stabilization of a newly prescribed long-term medication or during change in dosing of a long-term medication currently being taken.
Fiscal Note: NULL
Resolution: View PDF for Prescription Co-Pay Relief