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Texas HHS Vendor Drug Program (VDP) will implement a uniform opioid policy for Medicaid (both fee-for-service and managed care) and CHIP to encourage appropriate use and reduce opioid over-prescribing effective 9/1/20. #DPPRtx txvendordrug.com/about/news/202…
1) Recently, HHS Federal Register “more or less” in very “ambiguous language” advised that the Feds were passing the buck to the States, and that States were only “liable” to adhere to “minimum Federal standards” for participation in Medicaid (qualify
2) for eligibility for Federal funding for each State Medicaid program) in reference to opioid policy, and the States were more or less “free to create” more “stringent standards” at their pleasure, hence there were “Medicaid Drug Utilization Review” meetings held in Texas
