75.980 Inappropriate Incentives for Recommending Generic Drugs over Brand Name Drugs:
MSSNY will introduce a resolution at the June 2009 Annual Meeting of the American Medical Association (AMA) calling upon the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to abolish the provision of providing incentives for pharmacists to “push” generic drugs over brand name drugs; and, through the AMA, to urge the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to assure that there be greater transparency between the use of generics vs. brand name medications so as to enable patients to make informed and intelligent decision. Also, MSSNY to seek passage of legislation similar to that passed in Maine in 2003 and, subsequently, in other states, that would allow for the regulation of Pharmacy Benefit Management plans by imposing contract transparency and conflict of interest requirements and would require that savings based on drug volume discounts be passed on to client health plans and consumers. (HOD 2009-103; Reaffirmed HOD 2019)
