Medicaid Drug Use Review Board

The drug use review board--made up of doctors and pharmacists--helps the department to ensure that medications prescribed for Medicaid clients are appropriate, medically necessary, cost effective, and unlikely to result in adverse side effects. It also aims to educate doctors and pharmacists to identify and reduce fraud, abuse, and inappropriate care associated with prescription drugs.

The board usually meets on the fourth Wednesday of every month at 1 p.m. at the Mountain-Pacific Quality Health Foundation, 3404 Cooney Drive, Helena.

Members are:

Lee Ann Bradley, PharmD
Sherrill Brown, PharmD
Bill Burton, RPh
Carla Cobb, PharmD
Jim Crichton, MD
Lori Fitzgerald, PharmD
V. Lee Harrison, MD
Stephen S. Nagy, MD
Richard Sargent, MD

For more information, contact Wendy Blackwood, Acute Services Division, 406-444-2738 or WBlackwood@mt.gov.

For meeting minutes, contact board coordinator Mark Eichler, Mountain-Pacific Quality Health Foundation, 406-457-5818, fax  406-443-2580. meichler@mpqhf.org.

The public is welcome to attend board meetings, but individuals are asked to contact Mark Eichler in advance to ensure that sufficient seating is available.

Page last updated: 09/15/2009