WAC 182-50-001   Authority and purpose.  RCW 41.05.021 (1)(a)(iii) and 70.14.050 authorize the administrator to establish an independent Washington state pharmacy and therapeutics committee within the health care authority to evaluate available evidence of the relative safety, efficacy and the effectiveness of prescription drugs within a class of prescription drugs, in the development of an evidence-based prescription drug program for participating state purchased health care programs. This section requires the administrator to adopt rules governing practitioner endorsement and use of any preferred drug list developed as part of the prescription drug program.



[Statutory Authority: RCW 41.05.160; 2004 1st sp.s. c 29 § 10. 04-06-021 (Order 03-02), § 182-50-001, filed 2/23/04, effective 3/25/04.]