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2016 SESSION
16103508DBe it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That § 54.1-2523.1 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:
§ 54.1-2523.1. Criteria for indicators of misuse; Director's authority to disclose information; intervention.
A. The Director shall develop, in consultation with an advisory panel, criteria for indicators of unusual patterns of prescribing or dispensing of covered substances by prescribers or dispensers and misuse of covered substances by recipients and a method for analysis of data collected by the Prescription Monitoring Program using the criteria for indicators of misuse to identify unusual patterns of prescribing or dispensing of covered substances by individual prescribers or dispensers or potential misuse of a covered substance by a recipient.
Upon the development
of such criteria and data analysis, B. In
cases in which analysis of data collected by the
Prescription Monitoring Program using the
criteria for indicators of misuse indicates an unusual pattern of prescribing
or dispensing of a covered substance by
an individual prescriber or dispenser or potential misuse
of a covered substance by a recipient, the
Director may, in addition to the discretionary disclosure of information
pursuant to § 54.1-2523,
disclose information using the criteria that indicates potential misuse by
recipients of covered substances to (i) their specific prescribers:
1. Disclose information about the unusual prescribing or dispensing of a covered substance by an individual prescriber or dispenser to the Enforcement Division of the Department of Health Professions; or
2. Disclose
information about the specific recipient to (i) the
prescriber or prescribers who have prescribed a covered
substance to the recipient for the purpose of intervention
to prevent such misuse or
abuse of such
covered substance or (ii) an agent who has completed the
Virginia State Police Drug Diversion School designated by the Superintendent of the Department of State
Police or designated by the chief law-enforcement officer of any county, city,
or town or campus police department for the purpose of an investigation into
possible drug diversion.