§ 872.9. Access to prescription information
Purdon's Pennsylvania Statutes and Consolidated StatutesTitle 35 P.S. Health and SafetyEffective: September 30, 2021
Effective: September 30, 2021
35 P.S. § 872.9
§ 872.9. Access to prescription information
(a) Confidentiality.--Except as set forth in subsection (b), prescription information submitted to the system and records of requests to query the system shall be confidential and not subject to disclosure under the act of February 14, 2008 (P.L. 6, No. 3),1 known as the Right-to-Know Law.
(A) Schedule II controlled substances as indicated in the act of April 14, 1972 (P.L. 233, No. 64),2 known as The Controlled Substance, Drug, Device and Cosmetic Act, and in the manner determined by the Pennsylvania Attorney General pursuant to 28 Pa. Code § 25.131 (relating to every dispensing practitioner); and
(iii) Requests made to the Office of Attorney General to query the system under this paragraph shall be made in a form or manner prescribed by the Office of Attorney General and shall include the court order, when applicable. Each individual designee of the Office of Attorney General shall have a unique identifier when accessing the system.
(11) Upon providing evidence of identity and within 30 days from the date of the request, an individual who is the recipient of a controlled substance prescription entered into the system, the individual's parent or guardian if the individual is under 18 years of age or the individual's health care power of attorney.
(12) Medical directors and pharmacy directors, or their designees, of an organization that has an agreement to be paid on a capitated basis to provide services to medical assistance beneficiaries, who are engaged in care management, the development and evaluation of quality improvement strategies, program integrity initiatives or conducting internal compliance reviews and data reporting for the medical assistance program. Personnel engaged in these activities:
(14) Personnel from the Department of Labor and Industry engaged in the administration and regulation of medical fee review disputes and utilization review of medical treatment under the act of June 2, 1915 (P.L. 736, No. 338),3 known as the Workers' Compensation Act.
(d) Preemption.--Political subdivisions of the Commonwealth may not establish a database requiring the submission and query of prescription data by prescribers and dispensers in addition to the database established under section 6.4
Credits
2014, Oct. 27, P.L. 2911, No. 191, § 9, effective June 30, 2015. Amended 2020, Feb. 12, P.L. 23, No. 8, § 1; 2021, Sept. 30, P.L. 402, No. 72, § 2, imd. effective.
35 P.S. § 872.9, PA ST 35 P.S. § 872.9
Current through Act 13 of the 2024 Regular Session. Some statute sections may be more current, see credits for details.
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