Increase Access To Pharmacy Services

The bill:

• Authorizes a pharmacist to delegate to a pharmacy technician any task within the practice of pharmacy for which the pharmacy technician has been specifically trained, except for patient counseling, drug regimen review, and clinical conflict resolution;
• Removes the statutory supervision ratio for pharmacists supervising pharmacy technicians when the pharmacy is not a public-facing pharmacy and is acting as an agent of an originating pharmacy to fill or refill a prescription; and
• Authorizes reimbursement under the medical assistance program for dispensing or administering vaccines to children under 19 years of age.
  (Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.)