§ 50-06-40 — Medication therapy management program

1. The department shall establish a medication therapy management program available
to Medicaid-eligible individuals in the medical and hospital benefits coverage group.
The purpose of the medication therapy management program is to coordinate health
care and improve the health of individuals in the identified health populations and to
manage health care expenditures.
2. The department may involve physicians, pharmacists, and other health professionals
in the program. Any physicians, pharmacists, and other health professionals who
provide face-to-face or telephonic medication therapy management services to
covered individuals in the identified health population are entitled to reimbursement.
3. The department may request the assistance of the North Dakota pharmacists
association or a specified delegate to implement a formalized medication therapy

program. This program must facilitate enrollment procedures, provide standards of
care, enable consistent documentation of clinical and economic outcomes, and
structure an outcomes reporting system.