The Board of Pharmacy requires an annual inventory of all controlled dangerous substances that must be taken between May 1 and July 1, and a copy of this inventory should be included with the pharmacy renewal application and kept on file at the pharmacy for Board inspections.
For more information, contact NACDS’ Mary Staples at 817-442-1155.
Gov. Kevin Stitt (R) signed into law SB 848, limiting Schedule II controlled substance prescriptions for acute pain to a seven-day supply.
For more information, contact NACDS’ Mary Staples at 817-442-1155.
Marty Hendrick, Pharm. D, D.Ph., has been named as the new executive director of the Board of Pharmacy effective May 28. Previously, Dr. Hendrick served as a compliance officer for the Board and worked in both independent and chain pharmacies.
For more information, contact NACDS’ Mary Staples at 817-442-1155.
SB 856, legislation by pharmacist Sen. Rob Standridge (R) that would have set the pharmacy technician to pharmacist ratio in statute at 2:1 which passed the Senate last month, died in the House Business and Commerce Committee.
For more information, contact NACDS’ Mary Staples at 817-442-1155.
Last week, the Board of Pharmacy approved regulations NACDS supported that if approved by the Legislature, will increase the pharmacy technician to pharmacist ratio from 2:1 to 5:1.
Also in Oklahoma… NACDS is closely monitoring SB 856, legislation pending in the House Health Committee that pharmacies oppose filed by pharmacist Sen. Rob Standridge (R) that would limit the technician to pharmacist ratio to 2:1.
For more information, contact NACDS’ Mary Staples at 817-442-1155.
Effective January 7, 2019, the Oklahoma Health Care Authority implemented Phase 1 of a daily Morphine Milligram Equivalent (MME) limit for SoonerCare (Medicaid) pharmacy claims. It covers both short-acting and long-acting opioid formulations. Opioid MME daily totals exceeding 240 will require prior authorization (PA) with patient-specific, clinically significant reasoning why the member requires more than 240 MME per day.* This limit will gradually decrease over a six-month period, allowing providers to develop and implement tapering plans for appropriate patients. The end goal is a target of 100 MME or less.
For more information, contact NACDS’ Mary Staples at 817-442-1155.
Earlier this month, the Health Care Authority approved an across-the-board Sooner-Care (Medicaid) provider reimbursement rate increase effective Monday, October 1. The three percent increase, or 32-cent increase in the dispensing fee to $10.87 for pharmacies, is effective Monday, October 1.
For more information, contact NACDS’ Mary Staples at 817-442-1155.
The Board of Pharmacy announced that former Board Member Dorothy Gourley, D.Ph. will serve as interim executive director while the Board conducts a search for a new executive director.
For more information, contact NACDS’ Mary Staples at 817-442-1155.
At the Board of Pharmacy’s emergency meeting on July 25, Executive Director Chelsea Church was fired effective immediately. Church is under investigation by the District Attorney for allegedly offering a high paying job to a Health Department lawyer in exchange for writing rules requiring a pharmacist at medical marijuana dispensaries.
For more information, contact NACDS’ Mary Staples at 817-442-1155.