Louisiana Administrative Code
Title 46 - PROFESSIONAL AND OCCUPATIONAL STANDARDS
Part LI - Optometrists
Chapter 6 - Dispensation of Medication
Section LI-611 - Mandatory Access and Review of Prescription Monitoring Program Data; Exceptions
Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 3, March 20, 2024
A. Scope of Rule. The rules for this §611 provide for prescriber mandatory access and review of the Louisiana Prescription Monitoring Program, R.S. 40:100 et seq., as from time to time may be amended (PMP), and for exceptions and non-compliance.
B. As used in this §611, the following terms and phrases shall have the meanings specified.
Administer-with respect to a medication provided or dispensed by a prescriber for use by a patient, the term administer means directly or through an agent to give, provide or supply for immediate oral ingestion, insertion or topical application by the patient, or to insert, apply topically, or inject intravenously, intramuscularly, subcutaneously, intrathecally, or extrathecally.
Board-the Louisiana State Board of Optometry Examiners, as constituted under R.S. 37:1041 et seq.
Controlled Dangerous Substance (CDS)-any substance defined, enumerated or included in federal or state statute or regulations 21 CFR §§ 1308.11-15 or R.S. 40:964, or any substance which may hereafter be designated as a controlled substance by amendment or supplementation of such regulations and statute.
Delegate-an individual authorized by a prescriber or dispenser who is also authorized to access and retrieve prescription monitoring program data for the purpose of assisting the prescriber or dispenser, and for whose actions the authorizing prescriber or dispenser retains accountability.
Prescribe-to issue a request or order for a drug or medical device by an individual licensed under this Part for a legitimate medical purpose. The act of prescribing must be in good faith and in the usual course of the licensees professional practice.
Prescriber-an optometrist or other health care provider as may hereafter be licensed by the board under this Part, whose scope of practice includes authority to prescribe opioids.
Prescription-an order from a practitioner authorized by law to prescribe for a drug or device that is patient specific and is communicated by any means to a pharmacist in a permitted pharmacy.
Prescription Monitoring Program or PMP-the electronic system for the monitoring of controlled substances and other drugs of concern established by the Prescription Monitoring Program Act, R.S. 40:1001 et seq., as may from time to time be amended.
C. Mandatory Access and Review
D. Action against Optometry License. Violation or failure to comply with the provisions set forth in §303 or 611, or providing false or misleading statements in connection with any application required by this Chapter may be deemed to constitute just cause for the suspension, revocation, refusal to issue, or the imposition of probationary or other restrictions on any license or permit to practice optometry in the state of Louisiana or applied for by an optometrist culpable of such violation, or for other administrative action as the board may in its discretion determine to be necessary or appropriate, under the Act.
AUTHORITY NOTE: Promulgated in accordance with R.S. 37:1048.