April 09, 2010 Governor Bobby Jindal Announces the Appointment of Damion Cummins to the Medicaid Pharmaceutical and Therapeutics CommitteeORIGINALLY PUBLISHED BY THE OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR, BOBBY JINDAL

- Today, Governor Bobby Jindal announced the appointment of Damion Cummins to the Medicaid Pharmaceutical and Therapeutics Committee.

The Medicaid Pharmaceutical and Therapeutics Committee serves to develop and maintain a legal pharmacopoeia, a list of preferred drugs, for Louisiana. The pharmacopoeia is publically available and is formulated after evidence-based analysis of each drug.

According to the statute, the committee is comprised of twenty-one members including the secretary of the Department of Health and Hospitals, the director of the Medicaid program in the Department of Health and Hospitals, the president of the Senate, the speaker of the House of Representatives or their designees. The remaining seventeen members are gubernatorial appointments, subject to senate confirmation, including the following:


Damion Cummins, of Baton Rouge, is a mental health counselor at Inspirations.  Cummins will serve as a Medicaid recipient, as required by statute.

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Surgeon General Ralph L. Abraham, M.D.

Secretary Bruce D. Greenstein

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