AL SJR66

Urges the Public Education Employees' Health Insurance Plan (PEEHIP) Board to adopt the State Employees' Health Insurance Plan (SEHIP) pharmacy-led medication management approach.

Recognizes Alabama pharmacies as economic stabilizers in their communities and pharmacists as trained professionals requiring 15 hours of continuing education annually.

States that national studies show pharmacy-involved medication management can save insurance plans an estimated $13 billion annually by preventing 1.5 million preventable problems costing $177 billion in injury and death.

Contends that PEEHIP's recent plan changes disrupt trusted patient-pharmacist relationships and threaten economic stability in Alabama communities.

Calls on PEEHIP to abandon its current plan changes and instead value the pharmacy-patient relationship as critical for improving clinical outcomes and achieving maximum cost containment.