N.C. Medicaid and N.C. Health Choice Preferred Drug List Changes, January 2015

On January 1, 2015, the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Medical Assistance (DMA) added psychotropic medications to the Medicaid Preferred Drug List (PDL) for the first time, and implemented a fail-first policy for antipsychotic medications. Trial and failure of one preferred antipsychotic is required before prior authorization will be granted for a non-preferred antipsychotic medication. This document is an excerpt of the January DMA Medicaid Bulletin, which includes the changes to the PDL . . .