Governor Bentley Issues State of Emergency to Assist Evacuees Coming into Alabama

MONTGOMERY – Governor Robert Bentley on Friday issued a State of Emergency to help evacuees coming into Alabama due to Hurricane Matthew. The Alabama Department of Public Health State Health Officer is predicting a significant number of displaced individuals who will travel to Alabama from the affected states and will have prescription drug needs of a chronic, urgent, or emergency nature.

“The issuance of this State of Emergency today will help ease the burden on evacuees as they try to get an out-of-state prescription filled,” Governor Bentley said. “Evacuees will now have more time to get emergency prescriptions filled, instead of 72 hours; they will now have 30 days to get prescriptions filled.”

This State of Emergency only applies to non-controlled prescriptions. The prescriptions may be refilled upon the presentation of the actual medication bottle indicating the name of the prescriber, copies of prescriptions, insurance billing report or insurance claim notification, or other documentation which would provide the pharmacist sufficient information to adequately identify the non-controlled medication and the dosage.

A link to the State of Emergency can be found here.