{"id":231,"date":"2020-05-27T16:10:59","date_gmt":"2020-05-27T20:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/lifescienceslaw\/?p=231"},"modified":"2020-05-27T16:10:59","modified_gmt":"2020-05-27T20:10:59","slug":"u-s-pharmacists-and-pharmacies-authorized-to-order-and-administer-covid-19-diagnostic-tests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/lifescienceslaw\/2020\/05\/27\/u-s-pharmacists-and-pharmacies-authorized-to-order-and-administer-covid-19-diagnostic-tests\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Pharmacists and Pharmacies Authorized to Order and Administer COVID-19 Diagnostic Tests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In further clarification to pharmacists and pharmacies around the country, on May 19, 2020, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued an\u00a0<a title=\"Department of Health and Human Services advisory opinion\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hhs.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/advisory-opinion-20-02-hhs-ogc-prep-act.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">advisory opinion<\/a>\u00a0determining that pharmacies in the United States, regardless of state or local requirements, are authorized to order and administer COVID-19 diagnostic tests under the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness (PREP) Act.<\/p>\n<p>To read the full text of this Duane Morris\u00a0<em>Alert<\/em>, please\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/alerts\/us_pharmacists_pharmacies_authorized_order_administer_covid19_diagnostic_tests_0520.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">visit the firm website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In further clarification to pharmacists and pharmacies around the country, on May 19, 2020, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued an\u00a0advisory opinion\u00a0determining that pharmacies in the United States, regardless of state or local requirements, are authorized to order and administer COVID-19 diagnostic tests under the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness (PREP) Act. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/lifescienceslaw\/2020\/05\/27\/u-s-pharmacists-and-pharmacies-authorized-to-order-and-administer-covid-19-diagnostic-tests\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;U.S. Pharmacists and Pharmacies Authorized to Order and Administer COVID-19 Diagnostic Tests&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[430,437,429,473,26,472,204,474,475,471],"ppma_author":[521],"class_list":["post-231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-testing","tag-covid-19","tag-diagnostic-tests","tag-hhs","tag-may-27","tag-pharmacies","tag-pharmacists","tag-pharmacy","tag-u-s-department-of-health-and-human-services"],"authors":[{"term_id":521,"user_id":6,"is_guest":0,"slug":"duanemorris3","display_name":"Duane Morris","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/843ff6e7a8fe5fc92109b47a45f34b6cf0ea499e6e788db23456c838b0ae6747?s=96&d=blank&r=g","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/lifescienceslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/lifescienceslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/lifescienceslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/lifescienceslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/lifescienceslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/lifescienceslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/lifescienceslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/lifescienceslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/lifescienceslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/lifescienceslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}