Gov. John Peter “Pete” Ricketts (R) signed Executive Order 21-18, facilitating hospital planning, and ensuring additional healthcare workforce capacity, on December 20, 2021. This extends the current Executive Order 21-15, allowing “pharmacists to have any number of pharmacist interns and pharmacy technicians under their supervision insofar as they determine it necessary within their professional discretion when administering vaccinations”, until March 31, 2022.
Also in Nebraska, the 471-000-540 Nebraska Medicaid Practitioner Fee Schedule for Injectables was updated effective January 1.
Also in Nebraska, the Dept. of Health and Human Services issued a Health Alert Network Update: Omicron Predominant in Nebraska and Therapeutics Updates that includes an update on the Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 in Nebraska, NIH’s criteria for identifying and prioritizing those expected to benefit the most from receiving the limited supply of COVID-19 therapeutics currently available and the NIH’s treatment algorithm.
Also in Nebraska, the Board of Pharmacy will meet on January 10 and have posted the meeting agenda. Also, the November 8, 2021, meeting minutes are available.
Finally in Nebraska, the Dept. of Health and Human Services has posted the DUR (Drug Utilization Review) Board January 11, 2022, meeting agenda and DUR Policy Statements (as of July 2021).
For more information, contact NACDS’ Sandra Guckian at 703-774-4801.