Texas

The Texas Pharmaceutical Initiative (TPI) Board is meeting on September 23.

Also in Texas, Speaker Dade Phelan (R) appointed Rick Perry (R), former Governor of Texas and Secretary of Energy under the Trump Administration, as a senior advisor to his leadership team.

Also in Texas, the Department of State Health Services (DSHS) resolved the issue of providers receiving errors when submitting Unsolicited Vaccine Updates (VXU) messages through data exchange for influenza vaccines. The seasonal influenza vaccines for 2024–2025 have been updated in ImmTrac2 as of Aug 30, 2024. Please refer to the Fall Season Respiratory Vaccine Codes | Immunization Information Systems (IIS) | CDC for the correct codes to report for influenza 2024–2025 vaccines to ImmTrac2.

Finally in Texas, the Senate Health and Human Services Committee held a hearing focused on expanding access to healthcare services and NACDS submitted a support letter.

For more information, contact NACDS’ Mary Staples at 817-442-1155.