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HB 154 Health; certain unused drugs re-dispensed to indigent.

Introduced by: Mitchell Van Yahres | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles | history

SUMMARY AS PASSED:

Health; certain unused drugs provided to free clinics. Permits nursing homes to enter into voluntary agreements with pharmacists to return any drugs that are no longer necessary for their residents in order that the pharmacy may dispense such drugs to the indigent, free of charge, subject to certain restrictions. The drugs must be in the manufacturers' original sealed containers or sealed individual dose or unit dose package and the return must comply with federal law. Only an authorized person will accomplish the physical transfer, consent must be obtained from the relevant patient or his authorized representative for return of the medication, the expiration date remains, all identifying data relating to the patient for whom the drug was dispensed must be removed, inventories must accompany the transferred drugs, and outdated drugs cannot be transferred and must be destroyed according to the Board's regulations. The pharmacist-in-charge at the participating pharmacy will be reponsible for determining the suitability of the drug for redispensing. Prescriptions dispensed for Medicaid or children's health insurance program recipients cannot be donated. The Board of Pharmacy must promulgate emergency regulations to implement the program.

SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE:

Health; certain unused drugs provided to free clinics. Permits nursing homes to enter into voluntary agreements with pharmacists to provide for drug transfers for reuse by the indigent, free of charge, subject to certain restrictions. The Board of Pharmacy shall promulgate emergency regulations to implement the program.

SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:

Health; certain unused drugs provided to free clinics. Requires the Board of Health to adopt regulations that require, and the Board of Pharmacy to adopt regulations that establish procedures for, nursing homes to provide to public health or community free clinics certain unused drugs that will not be used by residents for whom the drugs were dispensed. Such unused drugs shall be sealed in the manufacturer's unopened original tamper-evident packaging and be unexpired or within the recommended shelf life of the drug. The Board of Pharmacy shall further adopt regulations for the dispensing of such unused drugs by the public health or community free clinics. Nursing homes shall not be required to be licensed as wholesale distributors.