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HOUSE RESOLUTION

 
2    WHEREAS, A gap exists in Illinois in communication from
3health care providers to pharmacies; and
 
4    WHEREAS, When medications are discontinued, changed, or
5replaced by a prescriber, rarely is the change communicated to
6the pharmacy; and
 
7    WHEREAS, Pharmacies often continue to dispense medications
8that should have been stopped; and
 
9    WHEREAS, These practices expose patients to increased risk
10and cost; and
 
11    WHEREAS, The State of Illinois maintains very little data
12on this issue; the only available studies are extremely limited
13in scope and pertain only to high-risk medications within a
14connected health care system; and
 
15    WHEREAS, Each day in Illinois, thousands of prescriptions
16are discontinued by prescribers; and
 
17    WHEREAS, When a prescriber discontinues a medication, the
18medication appears as inactive in that patient's electronic
19health records; and
 

 

 

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1    WHEREAS, Pharmacies encourage "auto-refill" programs,
2wherein refills are automatically processed without the
3patient's request; and
 
4    WHEREAS, Many patients have limited knowledge of the exact
5names or doses of all of their medications; and
 
6    WHEREAS, No mechanisms to enable the transmission of
7"discontinue", "cancel", or "stop" orders through
8e-prescribing systems have been adopted by the relevant
9stakeholders; and
 
10    WHEREAS, There are high indirect costs to health care
11payers who have to refill expensive prescriptions
12unnecessarily; therefore, be it
 
13    RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE
14NINETY-NINTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we
15urge the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation to
16undertake a study to determine the appropriateness of mandating
17a mechanism for electronically-prescribed prescription orders
18to electronically transmit "discontinuation", "cancel", or
19"stop" orders from health care providers to pharmacies; and be
20it further
 

 

 

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1    RESOLVED, That we urge the Department of Financial and
2Professional Regulation to examine the effects of auto-refill
3programs on the unnecessary filling of discontinued
4medications no longer endorsed by the prescriber; and be it
5further
 
6    RESOLVED, That we urge the Department of Financial and
7Professional Regulation to complete its study and submit its
8findings to the General Assembly, the Governor, and the
9Secretary of Financial and Professional Regulation by December
1031, 2016.