Florida Medicaid
Executive Summary
Florida Medicaid's preferred drug list will include Pfizer's Zoloft, Forest's Lexapro and GlaxoSmithKline's Paxil CR, Wellbutrin XL and Lamictal after the manufacturers renegotiated prices for the mental health products. The drugs were not initially recommended for inclusion by the Florida pharmacy & therapeutics committee under revisions to the Medicaid PDL (1"The Pink Sheet" July 11, 2005, p. 11). Wyeth's Effexor XR and Lilly's antidepressants (Cymbalta, Prozac Weekly, Sarafem) and antipsychotics (Zyprexa and Symbyax) are among the products that will require prior authorization...