HB 896 would impose a costly and unworkable mandate requiring that pharmacists be reimbursed at the same rate as doctors for performing equivalent healthcare services. Under this legislation, big pharmacies would see a windfall but costs for patients would skyrocket. One of the primary benefits of expanding a pharmacist’s scope of care, as the Coalition supports, is that it would provide people with a less expensive source of care. Mandating that a pharmacist is paid the same as a doctor would undermine those cost-saving objectives.