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Medicaid Preferred Drug List Revisions for Albuterol Inhalers

Date: 10/04/21

The Iowa Medicaid Enterprise is implementing changes due to availability issues for albuterol inhalers.

Effective November 5, 2021, the following products will be non-preferred on the Iowa Medicaid Preferred Drug List (PDL):

  • Albuterol HFA
  • Levalbuterol tartrate
  • ProAir Digihaler
  • Proventil HFA
  • Xopenex HFA

The following products will remain preferred on the PDL, pending Pharmaceutical & Therapeutics (P&T) Committee review:

  • ProAir HFA
  • ProAir RespiClick
  • Ventolin HFA

Please contact CVS at 1-888-996-0082 or Iowa Total Care at 1-833-404-1061 with questions regarding coverage of these products by Iowa Medicaid.