Wisconsin

The Department of Health Services announced its third annual Opioid Forum will be held May 5-7, 2020, in the Wisconsin Dells.  For more information, including presentations from previous years, please visit the Opioid Forum web page.

Also in Wisconsin… The Department of Health Services will carve out coverage of most prescription outpatient drugs from the Family Care Partnership benefit effective January 1, 2020.  For more information, please see the ForwardHealth update.

Also in Wisconsin… Gov. Tony Everts (D) signed into law 2019 Wisconsin Act 24. The enacted legislation authorizes pharmacists to administer ACIP-recommended vaccines to individuals 6 years of age and older under their own independent authority and authorizes pharmacists to administer other vaccines pursuant to a prescription, vaccine protocol or standing order (including vaccines to children younger than 6 years of age pursuant to a prescription issued within 29 days of vaccine administration.)

For more information, contact NACDS’ Joel Kurzman at 847-905-0555.