Amendment #893 to H4000

Academic Detailing Initiative

Representatives Benson of Lunenburg, Hecht of Watertown, Andrews of Orange, Heroux of Attleboro, Farley-Bouvier of Pittsfield, Garballey of Arlington, DiNatale of Fitchburg and Malia of Boston moves to amend the bill in section 2 by inserting after item 4510-0108 the following item:

"4510-XXXX For the operation of an evidence based outreach and education program designed to provide information and education on the therapeutic and cost effective utilization of prescription drugs to physicians, pharmacists and other health care professionals authorized to prescribe and dispense prescription

drugs; provided, that the department of public health shall continue to work with MassHealth to access aggregated prescription data by provider on an ongoing basis for the use of the evidence based outreach and education program; provided further, that not later than October 1, 2013, the department

of public health, in conjunction with the executive office of health and human services, shall report to the house and senate committees on ways and means on data sharing capacity obstacles that are preventing this program from effective outreach; and provided further, that funds shall be set aside from this appropriation for the purposes of program evaluation assessing the effectiveness of and cost savings associated with this program……………………………………………………………………………..$500,000”