TRAVEL MEDICATIONS CLINIC Amy Le, AnhDao Nguyen, Quan Ngo, Arad Goudarzi & Joo Pak SB 493 - Pharmacist can furnish prescription medications for traveling purposes - Medications that do not require diagnosis to be given - For prophylaxis only when traveling outside of the US Requirements for pharmacists to provide service - Licensed pharmacists in California - Access to the Travel Medication resources - Optional: CE/Certificate courses ● USC International Travel Medicine Review Certificate Course (ACPEaccredited) Resources - Access to the Travel Medication resources Shoreland: Travax, Travel Clinic Operations Guide, Travel and Routine Immunizations (“Blue Book”) CDC: Health information for internal travel (“Yellow Book”) CDC: Epidemiology and Prevention of Vaccine Preventable Diseases (“Pink Book”) WHO: International Travel and Health (“Green Book”) • • • • What products/services are provided? • • Mostly for prevention of diseases Consultation and prescription medications that does not require diagnosis, including: - Traveler’s Diarrhea - Altitude illness - Jet lag - Motion sickness - Malaria self-treatment Steps to make this service a reality in our pharmacy • • • • Having a designated consultation area in our pharmacy Advertise around our community about our travel medicine services with business flyers Visiting travel agency to promote our services Target Groups: o Individual or group travelers o Student travelers o Travel agents o Corporate travel directors o Primary care providers o Specialty retail outlets Cost/Reimbursement? • • • • May or may not be covered with private insurance Some insurance plans will allow you to bill new (99201-99205) and established (99211-99215) patient E&M service for travel medicine visits. Other plans might allow you to bill outpatient consultation E/M service codes (99241-99245) if patients have referrals from their primary care physicians If not covered, patient needs to pay out-of-pocket