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.