The Office of Emergency Medical Services seeks pharmacists to assist with medical response in Western North Carolina due to Hurricane Helene. A minimum deployment of three consecutive days is preferred. If interested, sign up here and note your availability in the comments section. For questions, email OEMSSupportCell@dhhs.nc.gov.

Also in North Carolina, with Western North Carolina seeing conditions of catastrophic proportions due to Hurricane Helene, there are still many areas without power or cell service and individuals are stranded on islands due to massive road closures. If your company plans to move people, resources or equipment into western North Carolina, you must coordinate plans and movements through NCEM at BEOC@ncdps.gov and copy elizabethr@ncrma.org

Finally, the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) is committed to ensuring continued access to care for Medicaid beneficiaries, as well as reimbursement to qualified providers for services rendered, in good faith, throughout the period of impacts from Hurricane Helene, retroactively from September 25 through October 15 (unless otherwise communicated by DHHS).

  • The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) granted approval effective October 1 for DHHS to implement a temporary, expedited enrollment process for health care professionals to become a Medicaid provider due to a natural disaster. This process is not for providers who regularly see Medicaid beneficiaries.

Health care professionals who will be rendering services to Medicaid beneficiaries due to Hurricane Helene can complete and apply through the NCTracks Provider Portal. Please refer to the disaster provider enrollment job aid Disaster Relief Provider Enrollment Application Job Aid (PRV703) located under Quick Links on the NCTracks Provider Enrollment home page for necessary instructions to complete the temporary disaster provider enrollment application. Be sure to review the job aid before starting to complete the application, as several preliminary steps are necessary.

For more information, contact NACDS’ Leigh Knotts at 803-243-7207.