Full Text of HR0944 99th General Assembly
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| 1 | | HOUSE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, A gap exists in Illinois in communication from | 3 | | health care providers to pharmacies; and
| 4 | | WHEREAS, When medications are discontinued, changed, or | 5 | | replaced by a prescriber, rarely is the change communicated to | 6 | | the pharmacy; and
| 7 | | WHEREAS, Pharmacies often continue to dispense medications | 8 | | that should have been stopped; and
| 9 | | WHEREAS, These practices expose patients to increased risk | 10 | | and cost; and
| 11 | | WHEREAS, The State of Illinois maintains very little data | 12 | | on this issue; the only available studies are extremely limited | 13 | | in scope and pertain only to high-risk medications within a | 14 | | connected health care system; and
| 15 | | WHEREAS, Each day in Illinois, thousands of prescriptions | 16 | | are discontinued by prescribers; and
| 17 | | WHEREAS, When a prescriber discontinues a medication, the | 18 | | medication appears as inactive in that patient's electronic | 19 | | health records; and
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| 1 | | WHEREAS, Pharmacies encourage "auto-refill" programs, | 2 | | wherein refills are automatically processed without the | 3 | | patient's request; and
| 4 | | WHEREAS, Many patients have limited knowledge of the exact | 5 | | names or doses of all of their medications; and
| 6 | | WHEREAS, No mechanisms to enable the transmission of | 7 | | "discontinue", "cancel", or "stop" orders through | 8 | | e-prescribing systems have been adopted by the relevant | 9 | | stakeholders; and | 10 | | WHEREAS, There are high indirect costs to health care | 11 | | payers who have to refill expensive prescriptions | 12 | | unnecessarily; therefore, be it
| 13 | | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 14 | | NINETY-NINTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we | 15 | | urge the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation to | 16 | | undertake a study to determine the appropriateness of mandating | 17 | | a mechanism for electronically-prescribed prescription orders | 18 | | to electronically transmit "discontinuation", "cancel", or | 19 | | "stop" orders from health care providers to pharmacies; and be | 20 | | it further
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| 1 | | RESOLVED, That we urge the Department of Financial and | 2 | | Professional Regulation to examine the effects of auto-refill | 3 | | programs on the unnecessary filling of discontinued | 4 | | medications no longer endorsed by the prescriber; and be it | 5 | | further | 6 | | RESOLVED, That we urge the Department of Financial and | 7 | | Professional Regulation to complete its study and submit its | 8 | | findings to the General Assembly, the Governor, and the | 9 | | Secretary of Financial and Professional Regulation by December | 10 | | 31, 2016.
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