evidence_text: Rep. Meerman moved to amend the bill as follows:
  
  Amend page 150, following line 23, by inserting:
  
  “Sec. 1502. (1) Michigan Medicaid shall contract with a third-party entity to apply a medication risk reduction model 2-year pilot program using 2 voluntary members from the Michigan Medicaid managed care health plans. The model pilot program must be provided under the Medicaid program for the purpose of identifying and reducing simultaneous, multi-drug medication-related risk and adverse drug events, enhancing compliance and quality of care, and improving health-related outcomes while reducing total cost of care in a measurable and reportable manner.
  
  In carrying out this purpose, the model pilot program, at a minimum, shall leverage both retrospective and ongoing Medicaid prescription drug and medical claims data, using technology that has the capability of providing a simultaneous multi-drug analysis using pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic sciences, and assessing cumulative effects of taking multiple prescription medications, including over-the-counter medications, herbals, and supplements to illuminate simultaneous, multi-drug interactions.
  
  The model pilot program must be administered using health plan-employed pharmacists, and vendor call centers, pursuant to vendor requirements that are certified to deliver medication safety reviews using simultaneous, multi-drug interaction analysis tools and has previous experience in saving medical costs through proven results. The model pilot program must be constructed as a value-based contract, so that this state shares savings realized with the Michigan Medicaid managed care health plans, by which the vendor has proven experience in conducting a retrospective, pre-post, cohort study that evaluated the outcomes of beneficiaries in cohorts: one that received medication safety reviews and a comparable group that did not.
  
  By September 30 of the current fiscal year, the department shall evaluate the vendor’s return on investment and program-related state savings. The evaluation conducted pursuant to this section shall be reported to the standard report recipients upon its completion.”.
  
  The motion did not prevail and the amendment was not adopted, a majority of the members serving not voting therefor.