The Health and Human Services Commission’s Vendor Drug Program wants to remind pharmacists that May 31st is the last day that the current Texas Medicaid Standing Order for Mosquito Repellent will be valid. Beginning June 1st, pharmacies must have a valid prescription from a Medicaid-enrolled provider to dispense mosquito repellent for Medicaid patients.
Also in Texas, the Department of State Health Services (DSHS) will suspend COVID-19 vaccine providers from ordering vaccines if they have not reported their current COVID-19 vaccine inventory effective May 6. Per the COVID-19 provider policy, COVID-19 vaccine providers must self-report by the fifth day of each month. Non-reporting providers will have their order privileges suspended until their monthly report is submitted.
Also in Texas, NACDS, Texas Federation of Drug Stores and our chain pharmacists met State Representatives Stephanie Klick (R), Chair of the House Public Health Committee, and Nicole Collier (D) who also serves on the House Public Health Committee, in their Tarrant County district offices. We shared stories of chain pharmacies engagement in the community during the pandemic and laid out our 2023 priority agenda.
Finally in Texas, Kroger pharmacists welcomed Ian Shaw, a Dallas attorney recently appointed as a public member on the Board of Pharmacy, behind the counter in a busy uptown pharmacy on a Friday afternoon.
For more information, contact NACDS’ Mary Staples at 817-442-1155.
