CFR > Title 42 - Public Health > CHAPTER IV—CENTERS FOR MEDICARE & MEDICAID SERVICES, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES > SUBCHAPTER C—MEDICAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS (parts 430 to 456) > PART 447—PAYMENTS FOR SERVICES > SUBPART I—Payment for Drugs (§447.500 to §447.520) > 447.518—State plan requirements, findings and assurances.

447.518—State plan requirements, findings and assurances.

(a) State plan. The State plan must describe comprehensively the agency's payment methodology for prescription drugs.
(b) Findings and assurances. Upon proposing significant State plan changes in payments for prescription drugs, and at least annually for multiple source drugs and triennially for all other drugs, the agency must make the following findings and assurances:
(1) Findings. The agency must make the following separate and distinct findings:
(i) In the aggregate, its Medicaid expenditures for multiple source drugs, identified and listed in accordance with § 447.514(a) of this subpart, are in accordance with the upper limits specified in § 447.514(b) of this subpart; and
(ii) In the aggregate, its Medicaid expenditures for all other drugs are in accordance with § 447.512 of this subpart.
(2) Assurances. The agency must make assurances satisfactory to CMS that the requirements set forth in § § 447.512 and 447.514 of this subpart concerning upper limits and in paragraph (b)(1) of this section concerning agency findings are met.
(c) Recordkeeping. The agency must maintain and make available to CMS, upon request, data, mathematical or statistical computations, comparisons, and any other pertinent records to support its findings and assurances.