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Health Services Committee advances cleanup changes to Kentucky prescription monitoring system
Summary
House Bill 389, a cleanup bill for Kentucky's prescription monitoring program, passed the Health Services Committee unanimously after staff said legislative fixes are needed to resolve implementation problems with CASPER.
House Bill 389, a cleanup bill for Kentucky’s prescription monitoring system, passed the Committee on Health Services unanimously after staff described implementation issues that require legislative change.
The bill, proponents said, addresses problems the Office of the Inspector General encountered while implementing CASPER, the Kentucky All‑Schedule Prescription Electronic Reporting System, and cannot be resolved by administrative regulation. The measure makes a single substantive change to align the definition of “practitioner” for out‑of‑state and in‑state providers.
Tim Anderson, assistant director of the Office of Inspector General, told the committee the changes are limited in scope and meant to fix implementation…
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