ArticlePharmacy (Basel, Switzerland)2020
Pharmacy Implementation of a New Law Allowing Year-Long Hormonal Contraception Supplies.
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- Twelve-month prescribing of contraceptive pill, patch, and ring before and after a standardized electronic medical record order change.Contraception · 2021Article
- Predictors and barriers to family planning access through pharmacies and drug shops among young women (15-24 Years) in Debre Tabor Town: A Convergent Parallel Mixed-Method study.Therapeutic advances in reproductive healthArticle
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Abstract
backgroundPrescription hormonal contraceptive methods are vital to prevention of unplanned pregnancies. New legislation among 23 states has expanded access to contraception. In California, a 2017 law requires pharmacists to dispense year-long supplies of contraception and insurance plans to cover it upon patients' request. This study assesses pharmacist knowledge of this new law 6 months after enactment.
methodsFrom July to November 2017, a random selection of 600 community pharmacies were called requesting a pharmacist (n = 532, 88.7% response). Pharmacists were asked if they had heard of the new law, if they would dispense a year-long supply to cash-pay, privately or publicly insured patients, and what they perceived as obstacles to dispensing year-long supplies.
resultsAwareness of this law was assessed through these surveys. Most pharmacists responded they would dispense year-long supplies to cash-pay patients, regardless of knowledge of the new law (81% of "knew", 70% of "did not know",
conclusionDespite a new law requiring insurance coverage of a year-long supply of prescription birth control, most pharmacists were unaware at six months after the policy went into effect. Of those who were aware, the majority did not clearly understand it. Compliance among insurance plans is unknown. There was no implementation plan or awareness campaign for the new law.
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