Oklahoma 2025 2025 Regular Session

Oklahoma Senate Bill SB927 Introduced / Bill

Filed 01/16/2025

                     
 
 
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STATE OF OKLAHOMA 
 
1st Session of the 60th Legislature (2025) 
 
SENATE BILL 927 	By: Hicks 
 
 
 
 
 
AS INTRODUCED 
 
An Act relating to the state Medicaid program; 
amending 63 O.S. 2021, Section 5030.1, which relates 
to the Medicaid Drug Utilization Revie w Board; 
modifying appointment procedure for certain members; 
updating statutory language; and providing an 
effective date. 
 
 
 
 
BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA: 
SECTION 1.     AMENDATORY     63 O.S. 2021, Sect ion 5030.1, is 
amended to read as follows: 
Section 5030.1. A.  There is hereby created within the Oklahoma 
Health Care Authority the Medicaid Drug Utilization Review Board, 
which shall be responsible for the development, implementation and 
assessment of retrospective and prospective drug utilization 
programs under the direction of the Authority. 
B.  The Medicaid Drug Utilization Review Board shall consist of 
ten (10) members appointed by the administrator of the Authority as 
follows:   
 
 
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1.  Four physicians, l icensed and actively engaged in the 
practice of medicine or osteopathic medici ne in this state, of 
which: 
a. three shall be physicians , each of whom is chosen from 
a list of not less than six three names submitted by 
the Oklahoma State Medical Association, and 
b. one shall be a physician chosen from a list of not 
less than two names submitted by the Oklahoma 
Osteopathic Association; 
2.  Four licensed pharmacists actively engaged in the practice 
of pharmacy, chosen from a list of not less than six names subm itted 
by the Oklahoma Pharmaceutical Pharmacists Association; 
3.  One person representing the lay community, who shall not be 
a physician or a pharmacist, but shall be a health care professional 
with recognized knowledge and expertise in at least one of th e 
following: 
a. clinically appropriate prescribing of covered 
outpatient drugs, 
b. clinically appropriate dispensing and monitoring of 
covered outpatient drugs, 
c. drug use review, evaluation and intervention, and 
d. medical quality assurance; and 
4.  One person representing the pharmaceutical industry who is a 
resident of the State of Oklahoma this state, chosen from a list of   
 
 
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not less than two names submitted by the Pharmaceutical Research and 
Manufacturers of America.  The member representing the 
pharmaceutical industry shall be prohibited from voting on action 
items involving drugs or classes of drugs. 
C.  Members shall serve terms of three (3) years, except that 
one physician, one pharmacist and the lay representative shall each 
be initially appointed f or two-year terms in order to stagger the 
terms.  In making the appointments, the administrator shall provide, 
to the extent possible, for geographic balance in the representation 
on the Medicaid Drug Utilization Review Board.  Members may be 
reappointed for a period not to exceed three three -year terms and 
one partial term.  Vacancies on the Medicaid Drug Utilization Review 
Board shall be filled for the balance of the unexpired term from new 
lists submitted by the entity originally submitting the list for the 
position vacated. 
D.  The Medicaid Drug Utilization Review Board shall ele ct from 
among its members a chair and a vice-chair vice chair who shall 
serve one-year terms, provided they may succeed themselves. 
E.  The proceedings of all meetings of the Med icaid Drug 
Utilization Review Board shall comply with the provisions of the 
Oklahoma Open Meeting Act and shall be subject to the provisions of 
the Administrative Procedures Act. 
F.  The Medicaid Drug Utilization Review Board may advise and 
make recommendations to the Authority regarding existing, proposed   
 
 
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and emergency rules govern ing retrospective and prospective drug 
utilization programs.  The Oklahoma Health Care Authority Board 
shall promulgate rules pursuant to the provisions of the 
Administrative Procedures Act for implementation of the provisions 
of this section. 
SECTION 2.  This act shall become effective November 1, 2025. 
 
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