70.934 Restricting FAXes from Pharmacy Benefit Managers
The Medical Society of the State of New York will ask the American Medical Association to support limitations on the use of faxes sent to physicians by Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs) and large pharmacy systems (such as Express Scripts, OptumRx, Humana). MSSNY is committed to the goal of finding cost effective strategies for physicians and will suggest that the AMA work with MSSNY to convene a work group of stakeholders (physicians, health plan associations, health insurers, large pharmacy systems and their pharmaceutical benefit managers) to develop cost effective alternatives for contacting physicians for prescriptions and requests for prior authorization electronically (rather than by FAX) whenever possible. (HOD 2018-106)
