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2022 SESSION

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HB 102 Prescriptions; off-label use.

Introduced by: Karen S. Greenhalgh | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles | history

SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE:

Prescriptions; off-label use. Provides that a prescriber may prescribe, administer, or dispense and a pharmacist may dispense a drug that has been approved for a specific use by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for an off-label use when the prescriber or pharmacist determines, in his professional judgment, that such off-label use is appropriate for the standard of care and such prescribing, administering, or dispensing is to improve health care outcomes. The bill also prohibits a hospital from denying, revoking, terminating, diminishing, or curtailing in any way any professional or clinical privilege of any licensed health care provider with prescriptive authority or authority to dispense drugs solely on the grounds that such health care provider prescribes, administers, or dispenses a drug that has been approved for a specific use by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for an off-label use, provided that such prescribing, administering, or dispensing is in accordance with laws of the Commonwealth and is to improve health care outcomes.

SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:

Prescriptions; off-label use. Provides that a licensed health care provider with prescriptive authority may prescribe, administer, or dispense a drug that has been approved for a specific use by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for an off-label use when the health care provider determines, in his professional judgement, that such off-label use is appropriate for the care and treatment of the patient, and prohibits a pharmacist from refusing to dispense a drug for off-label use if a valid prescription is presented. The bill also requires the Board of Health to include in regulations governing hospitals a provision that no hospital shall deny, revoke, terminate, diminish, or curtail in any way any professional or clinical privilege to a health care provider with prescriptive authority solely on the grounds that such health care provider prescribes, administers, or dispenses a drug that has been approved for a specific use by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for an off-label use.