Maine pharmacy provider fee "insupportable," NACDS asserts in letter to HCFA.
Executive Summary
MAINE PHARMACY PROVIDER FEE IS "INSUPPORTABLE," NACDS TELLS HCFA in a July 31 letter. Maine instituted a 25 [cents] per pharmacy claim processing service fee on July 1. "The reduction is insupportable on its merits and reduces what already was an unreasonable, marginal dispensing fee" for Medicaid prescriptions, the National Association of Chain Drug Stores told the Health Care Financing Administration.