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2015 SESSION


CHAPTER 668
An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 32.1-162.5:1, relating to hospices; notice to dispenser of hospice patient's death.
[H 1738]
Approved March 27, 2015

 

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That the Code of Virginia is amended by adding a section numbered 32.1-162.5:1 as follows:

§ 32.1-162.5:1. Notice to dispenser of patient's death.

Any hospice licensed by the Department or exempt from licensure pursuant to § 32.1-162.2 with a hospice patient residing at home at the time of death shall notify every pharmacy that has dispensed partial quantities of a Schedule II controlled substance for a patient with a medical diagnosis documenting a terminal illness, as authorized by federal law, within 48 hours of the patient's death.