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2000 SESSION

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HB 1437 Pharmacy; practitioner-patient relationship.

Introduced by: James K. (Jay) O'Brien, Jr. | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

SUMMARY AS PASSED: (all summaries)

Health professions; pharmacy. Expands the definition of a bona fide practitioner-patient relationship to mean that the practitioner, prior to prescribing a drug, has obtained or has access to a readily available medical and drug history, communicated the benefits and risks of the drug being prescribed, performed an appropriate examination of the patient, and initiated additional interventions and follow-up, if needed. The bill also prohibits out-of-state pharmacists from dispensing any drugs to patients in Virginia that do not result from a bona fide practitioner-patient relationship. Further, no prescription is to be filled by such pharmacists unless there is a bona fide practitioner-patient-pharmacist relationship and a prescription not issued in the usual course of treatment or for authorized research is not valid prescription. Nonresident pharmacies must aver that their pharmacists do not knowingly fill or dispense a prescription for a patient in Virginia in violation of these requirements. These provisions are recommendations by the Board of Medicine and the Department of Health Professions in their study of the sale of drugs via the Internet.


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