Excerpt from: Vermilion Today (click for full article)
If community pharmacies were waiting for things to get better with the
Department of Health and Hospital’s (DHH) new plan for Medicaid
reimbursement, they probably have realized by now things aren’t getting
better; they’re getting worse.
Alterations to the DHH’s changes
have been made, and still, pharmacies can only scratch their heads and
try to figure out what they can do to make sure they do not suffer huge
financial losses and keep their doors open.
“It’s almost like
‘What can we do’,” said Brandy Freed, owner of The Medicine Shoppe in
Crowley. “We have to roll with the punches.
“All you can do right now is try to increase business to try and make up for it. That’s what we’re doing.”
The state’s health chief said last week that revisions made in response to pharmacies’ complaints should quell the backlash.
They
didn’t. Instead, it seems the changes themselves are “horrible” as
Louisiana Independent Pharmacies Association President Randal Johnson
dubbed the amended plan that began Thursday, Nov. 1. The roughly 500
members of the association are not affiliated with the big chain store
pharmacies.
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