Medicaid Demo’s Formularies Include Protections For HIV, Behavioral Health Drugs
Executive Summary
Healthy Adult Opportunity initiative (don’t call it block grants) adopts some, but not all, of Medicare Part D’s protected classes, allowing states to exclude some drugs from coverage in the expansion Medicaid population to drive additional savings.
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