Using the BEERS Criteria for Drug Utilization Review (DUR) and Medication Therapy Management (MTM)

Resolution and Position Statements
March 1, 2014

Policy H-14

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that AMDA—Dedicated to Long Term Care Medicine support the autonomy of individual prescribers which allows medical treatment plans with potentially Beers Criteria inappropriate medications when benefits outweigh risks;

AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that AMDA—Dedicated to Long Term Care Medicine formally communicate this concern to the Centers for Medicaid & Medicare Services (CMS) for recognition that the Beers Criteria are intended to be guidelines for prescribing and not a regulation intended to encroach on the practice of medicine and have them convey that to state surveyors and pharmacy benefits managers.