republic-os/legislation/us/states/in/2023/hb-1445.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Audit of Medicaid program prescription drug costs."
description: "Amends the requirements for a physician to provide office based opioid treatment. Provides that the attorney general may issue a request for proposal to audit the prescription drug programs within the state employee health plan and the Medicaid program. Provides that the attorney general may evaluate and determine whether to include specified metrics in the request for proposal. Provides that the audit look back period must be the previous five state fiscal years. Provides that the results of the audits must be provided to the interim study committee on public health, behavioral health, and human services before September 1, 2024. Provides that a practitioner is not required to obtain information about a patient from the Indiana scheduled prescription electronic collection and tracking program (INSPECT) data base or through the patient's integrated health record before prescribing certain medications if the patient is enrolled in a hospice program."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 1445"
citation: "Indiana HB 1445 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ATTORNEY GENERAL", "AUDITS AND AUDITORS", "DRUGS AND MEDICINES", "HEALTH", "Health Care Costs; Health Insurance", "STUDY COMMITTEES", "WELFARE", "Medicaid"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Andy Zay", "Ann Vermilion", "Ed Charbonneau", "Mike Bohacek"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 34
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2023-01-17"
last_action: "2023-05-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9a29def1-d3bd-4803-b390-bb76a89a4d19"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2023/bills/house/1445"
source_hash: "38b6cbf07ac97183221cd593a469fc19ad429f6585747d2800819894f476584f"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-in"]
---

# Indiana HB 1445 (2023) — Audit of Medicaid program prescription drug costs.

Amends the requirements for a physician to provide office based opioid treatment. Provides that the attorney general may issue a request for proposal to audit the prescription drug programs within the state employee health plan and the Medicaid program. Provides that the attorney general may evaluate and determine whether to include specified metrics in the request for proposal. Provides that the audit look back period must be the previous five state fiscal years. Provides that the results of the audits must be provided to the interim study committee on public health, behavioral health, and human services before September 1, 2024. Provides that a practitioner is not required to obtain information about a patient from the Indiana scheduled prescription electronic collection and tracking program (INSPECT) data base or through the patient's integrated health record before prescribing certain medications if the patient is enrolled in a hospice program.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Enrolled House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/HB1445/versions/HB1445.06.ENRS)
2. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/HB1445/versions/HB1445.02.COMH)
3. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/HB1445/versions/HB1445.03.COMH)
4. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/HB1445/versions/HB1445.05.COMS)
5. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/HB1445/versions/HB1445.04.COMS)
6. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/HB1445/versions/HB1445.01.INTR)

## Votes

- HB 1445 - Bohacek - 3rd Reading — **50–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Andy Zay — primary (person)
- Ann Vermilion — primary (person)
- Ed Charbonneau — primary (person)
- Mike Bohacek — primary (person)
- Gregory Porter — coauthor (person)
- Martin Carbaugh — coauthor (person)
- Matt Lehman — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2023-01-17** Coauthored by Representative Lehman
- **2023-01-17** Authored by Representative Vermilion
- **2023-01-17** First reading: referred to Committee on Public Health `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2023-01-19** Representative Schaibley added as coauthor
- **2023-02-07** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-07** Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means pursuant to House Rule 127
- **2023-02-13** Representative Schaibley removed as coauthor
- **2023-02-13** Representatives Carbaugh and Porter added as coauthors
- **2023-02-20** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-22** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2023-02-23** Senate sponsors: Senators Bohacek, Charbonneau, Zay
- **2023-02-23** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 224: yeas 92, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2023-02-24** Referred to the Senate `referral`
- **2023-03-06** First reading: referred to Committee on Insurance and Financial Institutions `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2023-03-30** Committee report: do pass adopted; reassigned to Committee on Appropriations `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2023-04-13** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2023-04-17** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2023-04-18** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 439: yeas 50, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2023-04-18** Returned to the House with amendments `receipt`
- **2023-04-19** Motion to dissent filed `filing`
- **2023-04-19** House dissented from Senate amendments
- **2023-04-19** House conferees appointed: Vermilion and Porter
- **2023-04-19** House advisors appointed: Carbaugh, Ledbetter and Fleming
- **2023-04-20** Senate conferees appointed: Bohacek and Qaddoura
- **2023-04-20** Senate advisors appointed: Randolph Lonnie M, Charbonneau and Zay
- **2023-04-27** CCR # 1 filed in the House `filing`
- **2023-04-27** CCR # 1 filed in the Senate `filing`
- **2023-04-27** Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the House; Roll Call 553: yeas 95, nays 0
- **2023-04-28** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
- **2023-04-28** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
- **2023-04-28** Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the Senate; Roll Call 533: yeas 50, nays 0
- **2023-05-01** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
- **2023-05-04** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2023-05-04** Public Law 233 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9a29def1-d3bd-4803-b390-bb76a89a4d19`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).