Reprinted from the April 2009 North Carolina Board of Pharmacy Newsletter. The Pharmacy Practice Act provides: A prescription for a narrow therapeutic index drug shall be refilled using only the same drug product by the same manufacturer that the pharmacist...

Published in the November 2008 Oregon State Board of Pharmacy Newsletter Recent confusion has been brought to the Board’s attention regarding who in the pharmacy may accept oral instructions for a prescription refill from a prescribing practitioner. More specifically, the...

Reprinted form the April 2008 Nevada State Board of Pharmacy Newsletter. Board staff often gets a call from either a patient or a pharmacist asking if it is OK for a pharmacist to fill multiple refills for the same prescription...

Reprinted from the January 2008 Minnesota Board of Pharmacy Newsletter. Drug Enforcement Administration adopted the following rule change effective December 19, 2007. The issuance of multiple prescriptions as described in this rule change is permissible under Minnesota law. Sec. 1306.12...

Reprinted from the July 2007 New Jersey Board of Pharmacy Newsletter. A number of instances involving incorrect dates assigned to refill prescriptions have recently come to the Board’s attention. Specifically, a prescription is only valid for one year from the...

Reprinted from the April 2007 North Carolina Board of Pharmacy Newsletter. Several physicians in North Carolina have complained to the Board about the volume and nature of refill authorization faxes transmitted to their practices. These faxes, examples of which appear...

Reprinted from the July 2006 New Jersey Board of Pharmacy Newsletter. NJSA 45:14-68 and NJAC 13:39-7.19 require that all pharmacies maintain a Patient Profile Record System (PPRS) to enable the dispensing pharmacist to identify previously dispensed medication at the time...

Reprinted from the July 2006 Nevada State Board of Pharmacy Newsletter. On May 4, 2006, the Board’s new regulation regarding when and how a pharmacist may refuse to fill a prescription became effective. Under the new regulation, a pharmacist may...

Published in the March 2006 Idaho Board of Pharmacy Newsletter Note the change in the language from the previous rule regarding expiration of prescription orders from one year to 15 months. “All prescription orders that are legally refillable must have...

Published in the March 2006 Kansas State Board of Pharmacy Newsletter How do you handle refill requests when a prescriber passes away, retires, or relocates his or her practice? The Kansas Board of Pharmacy and Kansas Board of Healing Arts...