; (D) plans, strategies, initiatives, or programmatic changes undertaken by the Secretary to prevent, mitigate, or otherwise address stakeholder feedback and concerns related to convenient pharmacy access for beneficiaries under this part; and (E) other issues determined appropriate by the Secretary. . (f) Funding In addition to amounts otherwise available, there is appropriated to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Program Management Account, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, $250,000,000 for fiscal year 2024, to remain available until expended, to carry out the amendment made by this section. 202. Ensuring accurate payments to pharmacies under Medicaid (a) In general Section 1927(f) of the Social Security Act ( 42 U.S.C. 1396r–8(f) ) is amended— (1) in paragraph (1)(A)— (A) by redesignating clause (ii) as clause (iii); and (B) by striking and after the semicolon at the end of clause (i) and all that precedes it through (1) and inserting the following: (1) Determining pharmacy actual acquisition costs The Secretary shall conduct a survey of retail community pharmacy drug prices and applicable non-retail pharmacy drug prices to determine national average drug acquisition cost benchmarks as follows: (A) Use of vendor The Secretary may contract services for— (i) with respect to retail community pharmacies, the determination of retail survey prices of the national average drug acquisition cost for covered outpatient drugs that represent a nationwide average of consumer purchase prices for such drugs, net of all discounts and rebates (to the extent any information with respect to such discounts and rebates is available) based on a monthly survey of such pharmacies