§ 872.5. Powers and duties of board
Purdon's Pennsylvania Statutes and Consolidated StatutesTitle 35 P.S. Health and SafetyEffective: January 3, 2017
Effective: January 3, 2017
35 P.S. § 872.5
§ 872.5. Powers and duties of board
The board shall have the following powers and duties:
(2) Appoint an advisory group comprised of dispensers, prescribers, law enforcement officials, addiction specialists, patient and privacy advocates and individuals with expertise considered important to the operation of the program. All members shall have varying perspectives and will provide input and recommendations to the board regarding the establishment and maintenance of the program. The advisory group shall not exceed 12 members.
(3) Create a written notice to be used by prescribers and used or displayed by dispensers to provide notice to patients that information regarding prescriptions for controlled substances is being collected by the program and that the patient has a right to review and correct the information with the program. The notice must include all of the following:
(iv) An explanation that prescription information is confidential and is not subject to the act of February 14, 2008 (P.L. 6, No. 3),1 known as the Right-to-Know Law.
(i) Require more frequent reporting of prescription medication information under section 72 should technology permit and so long as there is little or no fiscal impact to the Commonwealth or those required to report. Any change in the frequency of reporting shall be made in collaboration with the Board of Pharmacy and the Board of Pharmacy's members to ensure that a pharmacy is able to accommodate the change.
(vi) Establish professionally developed criteria, with the advice of the advisory group, that generates referrals of prescription monitoring information to the appropriate licensing board in the Department of State. A referral may only be generated when the system produces an alert that there is a pattern of irregular data for a dispenser or prescriber which appears to deviate from the clinical standard.
(ix) Permit individuals employed by prescribers, pharmacies and dispensers to query the system as designees so long as each individual designee has a unique identifier when accessing the system and set explicit standards to qualify individuals authorized to query the system and to ensure the security of the system when used by a designee.
Credits
2014, Oct. 27, P.L. 2911, No. 191, § 5, effective June 30, 2015. Amended 2016, Nov. 2, P.L. 980, No. 124, § 2, effective in 60 days [Jan. 3, 2017].
35 P.S. § 872.5, PA ST 35 P.S. § 872.5
Current through Act 10 of the 2024 Regular Session. Some statute sections may be more current, see credits for details.
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