{"id":24858,"date":"2019-02-08T13:25:07","date_gmt":"2019-02-08T19:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=24858"},"modified":"2019-02-08T13:27:34","modified_gmt":"2019-02-08T19:27:34","slug":"medical-synchronization-bill-advances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=24858","title":{"rendered":"Medical synchronization bill advances"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Legislators advanced a bill to select file Feb. 8 that would allow Nebraskans with multiple medical prescriptions to coordinate and collect all of their medication on the same day.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_20152\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20152\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"20152\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?attachment_id=20152\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SenMcCollister_inline.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"297,445\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-title=\"senmccollister_inline\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Sen. John McCollister&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Sen. John McCollister&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SenMcCollister_inline.jpg\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-20152\" src=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SenMcCollister_inline-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Sen. John McCollister\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SenMcCollister_inline-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SenMcCollister_inline.jpg 297w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-20152\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. John McCollister<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Omaha Sen. John McCollister said he introduced LB442 to enable those needing medication to make one trip to the pharmacy each month.<\/p>\n<p>LB442 would allow for medical synchronization if medication:<br \/>\n\u2022 is covered by the patient\u2019s health benefit plan or has been approved by a formulary exception process;<br \/>\n\u2022 meets the prior authorization or utilization management criteria;<br \/>\n\u2022 treats a chronic illness;<br \/>\n\u2022 can be safely split into short-fill periods; and<br \/>\n\u2022 is not a Schedule II controlled substance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis synchronized approach would enhance pharmacy efficiency, improve health care outcomes and result in increased medication adherence,\u201d McCollister said.<\/p>\n<p>Senators voted 32-0 to advance the bill to select file.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Legislators advanced a bill to select file Feb. 8 that would allow Nebraskans with multiple medical prescriptions to coordinate and collect all of their medication on the same day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[156],"class_list":["post-24858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-banking-commerce-and-insurance","tag-sen-john-mccollister"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24858"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24861,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24858\/revisions\/24861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}