Silver State Scripts Board Replaces Pharmacy and Therapeutics (P&T) Committee

On June 14, 2019, Governor Steve Sisolak signed into law Nevada Senate Bill 378. This bill indicates new provisions to the Pharmacy and Therapeutics (P&T) Committee as listed below:

• Effective June 30, 2019, the P&T Committee has been removed, and the terms of its members expired.

• The Silver State Scripts Board has been established to replace the P&T Committee and holds the same responsibilities, which include development of the Preferred Drug List (PDL).

• The Nevada Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) Director has appointed the following members to the Silver State Scripts Board:

  ‐ Mark Decerbo, PharmD (Chairman)

  ‐ Kate Ward, PharmD (Vice Chairman)

  ‐ Joseph Adashek, MD

  ‐ Sapandeep Khurana, MD

  ‐ Brian Passalacqua, MD

  ‐ Michael Hautekeet, RPh

  ‐ Evelyn Chu, PharmD

  ‐ Mark Crumby, PharmD

  ‐ Aditi Singh, MD

The Pharmacy webpages on the Nevada Medicaid website at www.medicaid.nv.gov will be updated to incorporate the changes listed above. Please note: If you have P&T webpages saved to your internet favorites, those hyperlinks will no longer connect you to the website when the website changes are complete, and you will receive the error “404 – Page Not Found.” When the changes are complete, please visit the Pharmacy webpages at www.medicaid.nv.gov and reset your internet favorites. A future web announcement will be published when the website has been updated.