Tag - High Cholesterol

Provider Alert!

Provider Alert! Clinical Criteria Revision for Evkeeza® effective June 1, 2023

Date: May 18, 2023 Attention: All Providers Effective Date: June 1, 2023 Call to action: Texas Children’s Health Plan (TCHP) would like to let providers know that effective June 1, 2023, Texas Health and Human Services (HHSC) will expand coverage for Evkeeza® (procedure code J1305) to adolescents 5 years of age and older due to a recent U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval. Evkeeza® is an injectable prescription medicine used along with other low-density lipoprotein (LDL) lowering medicines in treating high cholesterol...