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Pharmacy prior authorization (PA)

When a medication isn't on our preferred drug list (PDL), or has a utilization management requirement, you’ll want to request pharmacy PA. Take a minute to review our current guidelines.

 

Pharmacy PA guidelines

Pharmacy PA guidelines

When you request prior authorization (PA) for a drug on the PDL, we use the Healthy Louisiana PDL clinical criteria  to make decisions. 

 

Healthy Louisiana guidelines and policies

 

Healthy Louisiana pharmacy clinical criteria (PDF)

 

Choose the “Criteria” link under each drug class column and to the left of the drug column.

 

Diabetic test strips and lancets quantity limits: January 1, 2021 (PDF)

 

Aetna Better Health guidelines and policies

 

Compounds coverage policy/guideline: December 2, 2019 (PDF)

 

Quantity level limit guideline: August 18, 2020 (PDF)

Electronic PA (ePA)

Electronic PA (ePA)

You need the right tools and technology to help our members. That’s why we’ve partnered with CoverMyMeds®  and Surescripts to provide a new way to request a pharmacy PA with our ePA program.

 

With ePA, you can look forward to saving time with:

 

  • Less paperwork 

  • Fewer phone calls and faxes

  • Quicker determinations 

  • Safe and secure HIPAA-compliant submitted requests

  • Easy upload of clinical documents

Enroll now

Getting started with ePA is free and easy. You’ll need this info to enroll:

 

  • BIN: 025986
  • GRP: LAMCOPBM
  • PCN: 1214172240 

 

How to enroll 

Request forms

If you don’t see the right form in the list, you can use the uniform prescription drug PA form (PDF). Otherwise, check for the drug class or drug name that matches your needs:

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