Forbes June 17, 2024
Several states are expanding pharmacists’ scope of practice to allow them to prescribe amid a shortage of primary care physicians and other healthcare workers.
As state legislative sessions wrap up for the summer, several states are expanding “scope of practice” to allow pharmacists to prescribe and provide more medical care amid a push by independent pharmacists as well as big retail pharmacy operators including Amazon, CVS Health, Walgreens and Walmart.
As one example, Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker earlier this month signed into law healthcare legislation that included an amendment to the state Pharmacy Practice Act that allows pharmacists to test, screen and then prescribe for influenza, Covid-19, group A Streptococcus, also known as strep throat, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), adult-stage...
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