North Dakota Administrative Code
Title 61 - Pharmacy, Board of
Article 61-04 - Professional Practice
Chapter 61-04-02 - Physician Exemption
Section 61-04-02-01 - Physician exemption

The exemption contained in subsection 1 of North Dakota Century Code section 43-15-02 for a duly licensed practitioner of medicine supplying the practitioner's own patients with such remedies as the practitioner may desire shall exempt such practitioners who dispense remedies as an incident to the practice of their profession for a patient's immediate needs, which would be those drugs required for a seventy-two-hour time period, full course of antibiotic treatment, start pack of prepackaged medications, or up to a ten-day supply of initial therapy of a maintenance medication that should be started immediately, but shall not exempt such a practitioner who regularly engages in dispensing such remedies to the practitioner's patients for which such patients are charged either separately or together with charges for other professional services, from recordkeeping, dispensing, labeling, counseling as required by North Dakota Century Code section 43-15-31.2, patient profile system as required by North Dakota Century Code section 43-15-31.1, and all other requirements of the practice of pharmacy as set forth in this chapter or by federal and state laws as they pertain to the regulation of the practice of pharmacy. Documented charts shall meet the requirements of the patient profile system.

General Authority: NDCC 19-02.1-02(2), 19-02.1-14, 28-32-02, 43-15-10(12), 43-15-10(14)

Law Implemented: NDCC 19-02.1-02(2), 19-02.1-14, 28-32-03, 43-15-10(12), 43-15-10(14)