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New Massachusetts Law to Expand the State's PMP
Signed by Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick on August 9, 2010, a new law will expand and add safeguards to the state’s prescription monitoring program (PMP). The current PMP, established in Massachusetts in 1992, collects prescribing and dispensing information on Massachusetts Schedule II prescription controlled substances. The new law authorizes the state PMP to collect data on the prescribing and dispensing of all Schedule II to V controlled substances, as well as certain additional drugs. Whereas the current PMP establishes medical review groups to analyze PMP data and review it for release to law enforcement and regulatory agencies, the new law allows pharmacists and prescribers to obtain data from the PMP for the purpose of providing medical or pharmaceutical care. The new law also requires the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, the agency maintaining the PMP, to “enter into reciprocal agreements with other states that have compatible prescription drug monitoring programs to share prescription drug monitoring information among the states.”
