Notice to Pharmacies: Mosquito Repellent Benefit Texas now covers mosquito repellents for the prevention of Zika virus. The following notice describes claims processing, eligibility, and benefit information specific to the mosquito repellent benefit for the below programs. The last page of this document contains a prescription template for claims processing. Covered programs:  Medicaid (Managed Care, MCO; and fee-for-service, FFS)  Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) and CHIP-Perinate  Healthy Texas Women

CorVel Corp
As previously communicated on July 18, 2016, effective August 28, 2016, CorVel Tennessee claimants will receive new pharmacy benefit insurance cards to comply with the state adoption of the ODG Formulary. All processing information is identical, except for the new Rx Group number of RX2853. If your claimant does not present their new pharmacy card, please use Rx Group number RX2853 when processing. For all questions, please contact CorVel at 1-800-563-8438.

Merck is now offering the Merck Vaccine Customer Center, with dedicated account representatives to help support your pharmacy's vaccination efforts.

On August 15, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Louisiana initiated Emergency Refill Too Soon (RTS) Override procedures for Medicare, Commercial and Exchange members affected by flooding in the state. Pharmacies were instructed that if a member from the disaster area attempts to fill a prescription for lost or damaged medication, and the claim rejects with NCPDP reject 79 "Refill Too Soon," the pharmacist should enter override code 91100000001 in NCPDP vD.0 field 462-EV "Prior Auth Number Submitted". As details of this disaster continue to unfold, Express Scripts is further alerting network pharmacies on behalf of BCBSLA that our contract language governing member copayments will not prevent pharmacists from working with patients to defer the payment of copays, or if deemed appropriate by the pharmacy, waiving copays during this emergency. Please use your professional judgment to serve members impacted by this disaster.