Indiana Code
Chapter 35. Drug Utilization Review
12-15-35-35. Prior Approval Program for Outpatient Drugs; Standards

Sec. 35. (a) Except as provided in IC 12-15-35.5-9, before the board develops a program to place a single source drug on prior approval, restrict the drug in its use, or establish a drug monitoring process or program to measure or restrict utilization of single source drugs other than in the SURS program, the board must meet the following conditions:
(1) Make a determination, after considering evidence and credible information provided to the board by the office and the public, that placing a single source drug on prior approval or restricting the drug's use will not:
(A) impede the quality of patient care in the Medicaid program; or
(B) increase costs in other parts of the Medicaid program, including hospital costs and physician costs.
(2) Meet to review a formulary or a restriction on a single source drug after the office provides at least fifteen (15) days notification to the public that the board will review the formulary or restriction on a single source drug at a particular board meeting. The notification shall contain the following information:
(A) A statement of the date, time, and place at which the board meeting will be convened.
(B) A general description of the subject matter of the board meeting.
(C) An explanation of how a copy of the formulary to be discussed at the meeting may be obtained.
The board shall meet to review the formulary or the restriction on a single source drug at least fifteen (15) days but not more than sixty (60) days after the notification.
(3) Ensure that:
(A) there is access to at least two (2) alternative drugs within each therapeutic classification, if available, on the formulary; and
(B) a process is in place through which a Medicaid recipient has access to medically necessary drugs.
(4) Reconsider the drug's removal from its restricted status or from prior approval not later than six (6) months after the single source drug is placed on prior approval or restricted in its use.
(5) Ensure that the program provides either telephone or FAX approval or denial Monday through Friday, twenty-four (24) hours a day. The office must provide the approval or denial within twenty-four (24) hours after receipt of a prior approval request. The program must provide for the dispensing of at least a seventy-two (72) hour supply of the drug in an emergency situation or on weekends.
(6) Ensure that any prior approval program or restriction on the use of a single source drug is not applied to prevent acceptable medical use for appropriate off-label indications.
(b) The board shall advise the office on the implementation of any program to restrict the use of brand name multisource drugs.
(c) The board shall consider:
(1) health economic data;
(2) cost data; and
(3) the use of formularies in the non-Medicaid markets;
in developing its recommendations to the office.
As added by P.L.75-1992, SEC.19. Amended by P.L.76-1994, SEC.5; P.L.231-1999, SEC.6; P.L.6-2002, SEC.3; P.L.107-2002, SEC.20; P.L.1-2003, SEC.58; P.L.37-2016, SEC.1.

Structure Indiana Code

Indiana Code

Title 12. Human Services

Article 15. Medicaid

Chapter 35. Drug Utilization Review

12-15-35-1. "Appropriate and Medically Necessary" Defined

12-15-35-2. "Board" Defined

12-15-35-3. "Compendia" Defined

12-15-35-4. "Counseling" Defined

12-15-35-4.5. "Covered Outpatient Drug" Defined

12-15-35-5. "Criteria" Defined

12-15-35-6. "Drug-Disease Contraindication" Defined

12-15-35-7. "Drug-Drug Interaction" Defined

12-15-35-8. "Drug Utilization Review" or "Dur" Defined

12-15-35-9. "Intervention" Defined

12-15-35-10. "Overutilization or Underutilization" Defined

12-15-35-11. "Pharmacist" Defined

12-15-35-12. "Physician" Defined

12-15-35-13. "Prospective Dur" Defined

12-15-35-14. "Retrospective Dur" Defined

12-15-35-15. "Standards" Defined

12-15-35-16. "Surs" Defined

12-15-35-17. "Therapeutic Appropriateness" Defined

12-15-35-17.5. "Therapeutic Classification" or "Therapeutic Category" Defined

12-15-35-18. "Therapeutic Duplication" Defined

12-15-35-18.5. Application of Chapter

12-15-35-18.7. Formulary Requirements

12-15-35-19. Drug Utilization Review Board; Establishment

12-15-35-20. Membership of Board

12-15-35-20.1. Conflicts of Interest

12-15-35-20.5. Therapeutics Committee Established; Members; Limitations; Terms; Votes; Meetings

12-15-35-21. Board; Appointment; Term

12-15-35-22. Qualifications of Board Members

12-15-35-23. Physician Appointments; Geographic Balance

12-15-35-24. Reappointment of Members

12-15-35-25. Chairman; Compensation; Expenses

12-15-35-26. Additional Staff

12-15-35-27. Retrospective and Prospective Dur Program Responsibility

12-15-35-28. Duties of the Board; Preferred Drug List; Report

12-15-35-28.5. Therapeutics Committee Duties

12-15-35-28.7. Submitting Initial Preferred Drug List; Limitations on Restrictions; Advance Notice to Providers; Implementation; Prior Authorization Limitation; Rules

12-15-35-29. Quorum; Majority Vote on Dur Criteria and Standards for Prescribing

12-15-35-30. Local Practices; Monitoring

12-15-35-31. Intervention; Approval; Requisites

12-15-35-32. Repealed

12-15-35-32.1. Annual Report Contents

12-15-35-33. Repealed

12-15-35-34. Confidential Identifying Information; Release of Cumulative Nonidentifying Information

12-15-35-35. Prior Approval Program for Outpatient Drugs; Standards

12-15-35-36. Advisory Committees

12-15-35-37. Medicaid State Plan; Inclusion of Retrospective and Prospective Dur Program

12-15-35-38. Dur Program Guidelines and Procedures

12-15-35-39. Retrospective Dur Requisites

12-15-35-40. Prospective Dur Requisites

12-15-35-41. Board Activities Under Ic 34-30-15

12-15-35-42. Meetings

12-15-35-43. Confidentiality; Pharmacist Data and Information

12-15-35-43.5. Prohibiting the Release of Proprietary or Confidential Information Obtained Under Certain Circumstances

12-15-35-44. Confidentiality; Violations; Penalty

12-15-35-45. Outpatient Drug Formulary; Requirements

12-15-35-46. Review of Proposed Formulary

12-15-35-47. Review of Changes to Formulary

12-15-35-48. Board Review of Managed Care Organization Prescription Drug Program

12-15-35-49. Information Provided by Office

12-15-35-50. Maximum Allowable Cost Schedule for Drugs; Pharmacy Participation in Medicaid Program

12-15-35-51. Advisory Committee; Duties; Report