To reign in prescription drug costs and increase Medicaid program transparency, New York’s Governor, Kathy Hochul, and the New York Medicaid Redesign Team announced earlier this year that the state would carve-out the prescription drug benefit from the Medicaid program.

Changes in how pharmacy benefits are delivered under New York’s Medicaid program are coming. Earlier this year, the state announced that to reduce prescription drug costs, it would carve out its Medicaid pharmacy benefits and transition to a fee for