Current through Register Vol. 49, No. 6, March 15, 2024
PURPOSE: This amendment would grant board licensees
additional time to fulfill prescription transfer requests received from
parties/entities other than the patient, provided the transfer is completed in
timely manner and a pharmacist ensures no interruption in patient therapy will
occur.
(1) Prescription
information shall be transferred for the purposes of refill between licensed
pharmacies, provided the prescription information to be transferred meets all
of the following criteria:
(A) The
prescription information indicates authorization by the prescriber for
refilling;
(B) The drug on the
prescription information is not a Schedule II controlled substance;
(C) The number of lawfully allowable refills
has not been exceeded or the maximum allowable time limit has not been
exceeded;
(D) If the transfer
involves a controlled substance, all information must be transferred directly
between two (2) licensed pharmacists; and
(E) The transfer of original prescription
information for a controlled substance listed in Schedules III, IV or V for the
purpose of refill dispensing is permissible between pharmacies on a one
(1)-time basis only. However, pharmacies electronically sharing a realtime,
online database may transfer up to the maximum refills permitted by law and the
prescriber's authorization.
(2) When a prescription on record is
transferred, the following record keeping is required:
(A) The prescription record at the
transferring pharmacy shall show all of the following:
1. The word void must appear on the face of
the invalidated prescription or be immediately voided within the electronic
system when the prescription is transferred;
2. The prescription record shall provide the
name of the pharmacy to which it was transferred, the date of transfer and the
identity of the transferring pharmacist; and
3. If the transfer involves a controlled
substance, the address and Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) registration
number of the pharmacy to which it was transferred and the full name of the
pharmacist receiving the prescription information must be recorded;
(B) The prescription record at the
receiving pharmacy shall show all of the following, in addition to all other
lawfully required information of an original prescription:
1. The prescription record is a transferred
prescription record from another licensed location;
2. Date of original issuance;
3. Date of original filling, if different
from original issuance date;
4.
Original number of refills authorized on the original prescription and the
number of remaining authorized refills;
5. Date of last refill;
6. Prescription label number;
7. Identity of licensed pharmacy from which
the record was transferred;
8. The
identity of the transferring pharmacist provided that pharmacies that share the
same database and are under the same ownership may, instead of transferring
prescriptions directly between two (2) pharmacists, transfer a prescription
electronically by generating a computer-based report at the transferring
pharmacy of any prescriptions that have been transferred out. This record shall
be readily retrievable to the transferring pharmacy and board representatives
and comply with all of the requirements of this rule, except that the
requirement to document pharmacist identity shall not be required unless
otherwise required by federal law;
9. If the transfer involves a controlled
substance, the address and DEA registration number from the transferring
pharmacy must be recorded; and
10.
Any electronic transfer must maintain patient confidentiality in accordance
with
20 CSR
2220-2.300; and
(C) A computerized transfer of prescription
information between licensed pharmacies for the purpose of refill shall meet
all the requirements stated in sections (1) and (2) of this rule.
(3) A pharmacy shall complete the
transfer within one (1) business day of receiving the request.
(4) A Class-C Long Term Care pharmacy may
transfer a non-controlled prescription or medication order to a second pharmacy
for the purpose of the initial dispensing of up to a seventy-two- (72-) hour
medication supply to a long-term care facility patient without voiding the
remaining prescription. The transferring pharmacy must deduct this amount from
the remaining prescription or medication order but is not required to void it.
(5) A prescription or medication
order must be transferred within one (1) business day of receiving a transfer
request directly from a patient or their caretaker. All other transfer requests
must be completed in a timely manner, provided licensees/permit holders shall
ensure no interruption in patient therapy.
*Original authority: 338.100, RSMo 1939, amended 1971,
1990, 1997, 1999; 338.140, RSMo 1939, amended 1981, 1989, 1997; and 338.280,
RSMo 1951, amended 1971, 1981 .
