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AR Code § 17-92-505 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 17 - Professions, Occupations, and Businesses|Subtitle 3 - Medical Professions|Chapter 92 - Pharmacists and Pharmacies|Subchapter 5 - Generic Drugs and Price Lists|§ 17-92-505. Labeling

 (a)  (1) The pharmacist filling a prescription for dispensing to an ultimate patient may affix to the container a label showing:  (A) The pharmacy name, address, and telephone number;  (B) The date of dispensing;  (C) The serial number of the prescription;  (D) The name of the patient;  (E) The name of the prescribing practitioner;  (F) Either:  (i) The trade name of the drug product, if any, or the generic name and identity of the manufacturer of the dispensed drug product, if the drug product appears generically listed on the drug formulary list as established by this subchapter; or  (ii) In the case of a biological product, the trade name of the biological product, if any, or the proper name of the biological product and identity of the manufacturer of the dispensed biological product;    (G) The strength per unit dose of the medication;  (H) The quantity of the medication; and  (I) Directions for use.    (2) If a pharmacist dispenses a generically equivalent product or interchangeable biological product, the person for whom the medication is prescribed shall be informed before dispensing or the label should appropriately indicate the substitution.  (3) This subsection does not apply to the dispensing of medication to inpatients in hospitals.  (4) In the case of dispensing a drug product or biological product, the prescribing practitioner may indicate that the name, manufacturer, and strength of the medication dispensed shall be deleted from the label.    (b) An authorized person who fills a prescription for dispensing to an ultimate patient shall affix to the container a label showing:  (1) The trade name of the medication or the generic name of the medication unless directed to the contrary by the prescribing practitioner; or  (2) The trade name, if any, or the proper name of the biological product unless directed to the contrary by the prescribing practitioner.
AR Code § 17-92-506 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 17 - Professions, Occupations, and Businesses|Subtitle 3 - Medical Professions|Chapter 92 - Pharmacists and Pharmacies|Subchapter 5 - Generic Drugs and Price Lists|§ 17-92-506. Available drug product and biological product lists

 (a)  (1) A pharmacist may display, within the confines of the pharmacy, lists of available drug products and biological products, other than controlled substances, and current charges for the drug products or biological products or for the dispensing of the drug products or biological products in specified quantities.  (2) Upon request, a pharmacy may make such lists available to its customers and other members of the public.    (b) The Arkansas State Board of Pharmacy shall maintain on the website of the board a link to the lists of all interchangeable biological products approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration.
AR Code § 17-92-601 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 17 - Professions, Occupations, and Businesses|Subtitle 3 - Medical Professions|Chapter 92 - Pharmacists and Pharmacies|Subchapter 6 - Hospital Pharmacies Act|§ 17-92-601. Short title

 This subchapter may be cited as the “Hospital Pharmacies Act”.
AR Code § 17-92-602 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 17 - Professions, Occupations, and Businesses|Subtitle 3 - Medical Professions|Chapter 92 - Pharmacists and Pharmacies|Subchapter 6 - Hospital Pharmacies Act|§ 17-92-602. Definitions

 As used in this subchapter:   (1) “Hospital” means a hospital as defined in § 20-9-201;  (2) “Hospital employee” means any individual employed by a hospital whose compensation for services or labor actually performed for a hospital is reflected on the payroll records of a hospital;  (3) “Hospital pharmacy” means the place or places in which drugs, chemicals, medicines, prescriptions, or poisons are prepared for distribution and administration for the use or benefit of patients in a hospital. The “hospital pharmacy” may also provide pharmacy services to patients in a “swing bed” within the hospital that may periodically swing back and forth from being a short-term acute hospital bed to a longer-term nursing home bed. The “hospital pharmacy” shall also mean the place or places in which drugs, chemicals, medicines, prescriptions, or poisons are compounded for the dispensing to hospital employees, members of the immediate families of hospital employees, patients being discharged, and for other persons in emergency situations;  (4) “Hospital pharmacy technicians” means persons other than licensed pharmacists who perform duties in conjunction with the overall hospital medication distribution system for inpatients; and  (5) “Licensed pharmacist” means any person licensed to practice pharmacy by the Arkansas State Board of Pharmacy.
AR Code § 17-92-604 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 17 - Professions, Occupations, and Businesses|Subtitle 3 - Medical Professions|Chapter 92 - Pharmacists and Pharmacies|Subchapter 6 - Hospital Pharmacies Act|§ 17-92-604. Regulatory authority

 (a) The Arkansas State Board of Pharmacy shall adopt, promulgate, and enforce rules and standards as may be necessary to the regulation of the operation of a hospital pharmacy and for the accomplishment of all other purposes of this subchapter.  (b) The board may modify, amend, or rescind the rules and standards, provided the modification, amendment, or rescission does not in any manner defeat the purposes of this subchapter.
AR Code § 17-92-605 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 17 - Professions, Occupations, and Businesses|Subtitle 3 - Medical Professions|Chapter 92 - Pharmacists and Pharmacies|Subchapter 6 - Hospital Pharmacies Act|§ 17-92-605. Hospital pharmacy license — Services permitted

 (a) All hospital pharmacies shall be licensed by the Arkansas State Board of Pharmacy as provided for by this subchapter. The hospital pharmacy license shall be issued in the name of the hospital.  (b) Any hospital receiving a permit shall advise the board of the name of:  (1) The hospital administrator or other person assuming responsibility for the general administration of the hospital;  (2) The director of the pharmacy, or other person assuming responsibility for the general operation of the hospital pharmacy, who shall be a licensed pharmacist; and  (3) All other licensed pharmacists employed by the hospital in its hospital pharmacy.    (c) The hospital and the director of pharmacy shall be required to report to the board any change in licensed pharmacist personnel.  (d) Upon the receipt of a hospital pharmacy license, a hospital pharmacy may provide the following pharmaceutical services:  (1) Prepare for distribution and administration of drugs, chemicals, medicines, prescriptions, or poisons for the use or benefit of the patients in the hospital as set forth in § 17-92-602(3); and  (2) Compound or dispense drugs, chemicals, medicines, prescriptions, or poisons for the use or benefit of the hospital's employees, members of the immediate families of hospital employees, patients being discharged, and other persons in emergency situations.
AR Code § 17-92-606 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 17 - Professions, Occupations, and Businesses|Subtitle 3 - Medical Professions|Chapter 92 - Pharmacists and Pharmacies|Subchapter 6 - Hospital Pharmacies Act|§ 17-92-606. Hospital pharmaceutical permit

 Any hospital pharmacy holding a hospital pharmaceutical permit issued by the Arkansas State Board of Pharmacy pursuant to § 17-92-403 on March 28, 1975, shall be deemed to be licensed pursuant to this subchapter until the permit shall expire.
AR Code § 17-92-607 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 17 - Professions, Occupations, and Businesses|Subtitle 3 - Medical Professions|Chapter 92 - Pharmacists and Pharmacies|Subchapter 6 - Hospital Pharmacies Act|§ 17-92-607. Unlawful for hospital to hold licensed pharmacy permit — Exceptions

 (a) It shall be unlawful for any nonprofit, tax exempt, or governmentally funded hospital to acquire direct or indirect interest in or otherwise hold directly or indirectly a licensed pharmacy permit pursuant to the provisions of § 17-92-405, for the sale at retail of drugs and medicines.  (b) However, nothing contained in this section shall be construed to prohibit any hospital having a direct or indirect interest in or otherwise holding either directly or indirectly a permit before March 28, 1975, from continuing to have an interest in or holding the permit. Nothing contained in this section shall be construed to prohibit any hospital so holding a permit before March 28, 1975, from receiving a renewal of the permit.
AR Code § 17-92-701 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 17 - Professions, Occupations, and Businesses|Subtitle 3 - Medical Professions|Chapter 92 - Pharmacists and Pharmacies|Subchapter 7 - Program for Pharmacists Impaired by Chemical Dependency|§ 17-92-701. Definitions

 As used in this subchapter:   (1) “Board-approved intervenors” means persons trained in intervention and designated by the Arkansas State Board of Pharmacy to implement the intervention process when necessary;  (2) “Impaired pharmacist” means a pharmacist who is unable to practice pharmacy with reasonable skill, competency, or safety to the public because of substance abuse;  (3) “Impaired pharmacist program” means a plan approved by the board for intervention, treatment, and rehabilitation of an impaired pharmacist;  (4) “Intervention” means a process whereby an allegedly impaired pharmacist is confronted by the board or board-approved intervenors who provide documentation that a problem exists and attempt to convince the pharmacist to seek evaluation and treatment;  (5) “Rehabilitation” means the process whereby an impaired pharmacist advances in an impaired pharmacist program to an optimal level of competence to practice pharmacy without endangering the public; and  (6) “Verification” means a process whereby alleged professional impairment is identified or established.
AR Code § 17-92-702 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 17 - Professions, Occupations, and Businesses|Subtitle 3 - Medical Professions|Chapter 92 - Pharmacists and Pharmacies|Subchapter 7 - Program for Pharmacists Impaired by Chemical Dependency|§ 17-92-702. Administration

 (a) The Arkansas State Board of Pharmacy may appoint a committee to organize and administer a program that shall fulfill two (2) functions:  (1) The program shall serve as a diversion program to which the board may refer licensees when appropriate in lieu of or in addition to other disciplinary action; and  (2) The program shall also be a source of treatment or referral for pharmacists who, on a strictly voluntary basis, desire to avail themselves of its services.    (b) The board may appoint a committee of five (5) persons who are recovering pharmacists to serve three-year terms with the initial members appointed to staggered terms.
AR Code § 17-92-703 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 17 - Professions, Occupations, and Businesses|Subtitle 3 - Medical Professions|Chapter 92 - Pharmacists and Pharmacies|Subchapter 7 - Program for Pharmacists Impaired by Chemical Dependency|§ 17-92-703. Functions

 The functions of the committee shall include:   (1) Evaluation of pharmacists who request participation in the program;  (2) Review and designation of treatment facilities and services to which pharmacists in the program may be referred;  (3) Receipt and review of information relating to the participation of pharmacists in the program;  (4) Assisting the pharmacists' professional association in publicizing the program; and  (5) Preparation of reports for the Arkansas State Board of Pharmacy.
AR Code § 17-92-704 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 17 - Professions, Occupations, and Businesses|Subtitle 3 - Medical Professions|Chapter 92 - Pharmacists and Pharmacies|Subchapter 7 - Program for Pharmacists Impaired by Chemical Dependency|§ 17-92-704. Board review

 The Arkansas State Board of Pharmacy shall review the activities of the committee. As part of this evaluation, the board may review files of all participants in the impaired pharmacist program. The board shall also resolve complaints voiced regarding the impaired pharmacist program.
AR Code § 17-92-705 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 17 - Professions, Occupations, and Businesses|Subtitle 3 - Medical Professions|Chapter 92 - Pharmacists and Pharmacies|Subchapter 7 - Program for Pharmacists Impaired by Chemical Dependency|§ 17-92-705. Notification of procedures, rights, and responsibilities — Failure to comply

 (a) The Arkansas State Board of Pharmacy shall inform each pharmacist referred to the program by board action of the procedures followed in the program, of the rights and responsibilities of the pharmacist in the program, and of the possible consequences of noncompliance with the program.  (b) The board shall be informed of the failure of a pharmacist to comply with any treatment provision of a program if the committee determines that the resumption of the practice of pharmacy would pose a threat to the health and safety of the public.  (c) Participation in a program under this section shall not be a defense to any disciplinary action which may be taken by the board. Further, no provision of this section shall preclude the board from commencing disciplinary action against a licensee who is terminated from a program pursuant to this section.  (d) The board shall be informed when pharmacists who enter the program resume professional practice.
AR Code § 17-92-706 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 17 - Professions, Occupations, and Businesses|Subtitle 3 - Medical Professions|Chapter 92 - Pharmacists and Pharmacies|Subchapter 7 - Program for Pharmacists Impaired by Chemical Dependency|§ 17-92-706. Funding

 (a)  (1) The Arkansas State Board of Pharmacy may provide up to fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) per year to the committee for the program.  (2) The board may provide to the committee at any time the moneys authorized under subdivision (a)(1) of this section.    (b) Documentation of the use of these funds shall be provided quarterly to the board for review and comment.
AR Code § 17-92-707 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 17 - Professions, Occupations, and Businesses|Subtitle 3 - Medical Professions|Chapter 92 - Pharmacists and Pharmacies|Subchapter 7 - Program for Pharmacists Impaired by Chemical Dependency|§ 17-92-707. Liability

 (a) All persons acting on behalf of the Arkansas State Board of Pharmacy in the impaired pharmacist program under this section shall be considered officers or employees of the State of Arkansas for purposes of:  (1) Immunity from civil liability pursuant to § 19-10-301 et seq.; and  (2) Payment of actual damages on behalf of state officers or employees pursuant to § 21-9-201 et seq.    (b) All patient records shall be confidential and shall not be subject to public inspection except pursuant to an order of a court of competent jurisdiction. However, the records may be introduced as evidence in any relevant proceedings before the board and shall be produced upon board request.
AR Code § 17-92-801 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 17 - Professions, Occupations, and Businesses|Subtitle 3 - Medical Professions|Chapter 92 - Pharmacists and Pharmacies|Subchapter 8 - Certification and Registration of Pharmacist Assistants|§ 17-92-801. Powers and duties of Arkansas State Board of Pharmacy

 (a) The Arkansas State Board of Pharmacy shall provide that hospital pharmacy technicians as in § 17-92-602 and pharmacy technicians as in § 17-92-101(16)(C), and hereinafter referred to as pharmacy technicians, register with or be certified by the board, or both.  (b) The board may provide reasonable qualifications for a person to be certified as a pharmacy technician or registered as a pharmacy technician, or both, including without limitation, the education, training, and testing that the board deems necessary to preserve and protect the public health.  (c) The board may suspend or revoke the registration of any person certified as a pharmacy technician or registered as a pharmacy technician, or both, but only after an opportunity for a hearing before the board upon reasonable notice to the person in writing.  (d) Grounds for suspension or revocation of registration or certification as a pharmacy technician, or both, are the following:  (1) Violation of any law or rule regarding the practice of pharmacy;  (2) Violation of any law or rule regarding legend drugs or controlled substances; or  (3) Violation of any rule adopted by the board regarding pharmacy technicians.
AR Code § 17-92-901 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 17 - Professions, Occupations, and Businesses|Subtitle 3 - Medical Professions|Chapter 92 - Pharmacists and Pharmacies|Subchapter 9 - Suppliers|§ 17-92-901. Definitions

 As used in this subchapter:   (1) “Home medical equipment, legend device, and medical gas supplier” means a person licensed to supply home medical equipment, medical gases, or legend devices, or any combination thereof, to patients on an order from medical practitioners licensed to order, use, or administer these products and to other licensed suppliers of home medical equipment, medical gases, or legend devices, or any combination thereof;  (2) “Home medical equipment services” means the delivery, installation, maintenance, replacement, or instruction, or any combination thereof, in the use of medical equipment used by a sick or disabled individual to allow the individual to be maintained in a noninstitutional environment;  (3) “Legend device” means a device which, because of any potential for harmful effect or the method of its use, is not safe except under the supervision of a practitioner;  (4)  (A) “Medical equipment” means technologically sophisticated medical devices, including, but not limited to:  (i) Oxygen and oxygen delivery systems;  (ii) Ventilators;  (iii) Respiratory disease management devices;  (iv) Electronic and computer-driven wheelchairs and seating systems;  (v) Apnea monitors;  (vi) Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulator units;  (vii) Low air loss cutaneous pressure management devices;  (viii) Sequential compression devices;  (ix) Neonatal home phototherapy devices;  (x) Feeding pumps;  (xi) Electrically powered hospital beds; and  (xii) Infusion pumps.    (B) “Medical equipment” does not include:  (i) Medical equipment used or dispensed in the normal course of treating patients by hospitals, hospices, nursing facilities, or home health agencies;  (ii) Medical equipment used or dispensed by healthcare professionals licensed in Arkansas, provided that the professional is practicing within the scope of that professional's practice act;  (iii) Upper and lower extremity prosthetics and related orthotics; or  (iv) Canes, crutches, walkers, bathtub grab bars, standard wheelchairs, commode chairs, and bath benches;      (5) “Medical gas” means those gases and liquid oxygen intended for human consumption; and  (6) “Order” means an order issued by a licensed medical practitioner legally authorized to order medical gases or legend devices, or both.
AR Code § 17-92-902 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 17 - Professions, Occupations, and Businesses|Subtitle 3 - Medical Professions|Chapter 92 - Pharmacists and Pharmacies|Subchapter 9 - Suppliers|§ 17-92-902. License required

 (a)  (1) No person or entity subject to licensure shall sell or rent or offer to sell or rent directly to patients in this state any home medical equipment, legend devices, or medical gases, or any combination thereof, unless the person or entity is licensed as required by this subchapter.  (2) The licensure requirements of this subchapter will apply to all companies, agencies, and other business entities that are in the business of supplying medical equipment to patients in their residences and that bill the patient or the patient's insurance, Medicare, Medicaid, or other third-party payor for the rent or sale of that equipment.    (b)  (1) The application for a license shall be on a form furnished by the Arkansas State Board of Pharmacy and shall be accompanied by payment of the fee prescribed by § 17-92-108.  (2) The board shall require a separate license for each facility directly or indirectly owned or operated within this state by the same person or business entity within this state, or for a parent entity with divisions, subdivisions, subsidiaries, or affiliate companies, or any combination thereof, when operations are conducted at more than one (1) location and there exists joint ownership and control among all the entities.    (c)  (1) All licenses issued under this subchapter shall expire on December 31 of each calendar year.  (2)  (A) Each application for renewal of the license must be made on or before December 31 of each year.  (B) Penalties for late payment include:  (i) A twenty-dollar penalty if not paid by February 1 of each year; and  (ii) A forty-dollar penalty if not paid by March 1 of each year.    (C) The license shall be considered null and void if the fee is not paid by April 1 of each year.      (d) Wholesale distributors licensed under § 20-64-501 et seq. may exchange those licenses for licenses issued under this subchapter without payment of additional fees.  (e) Each license issued hereunder shall be displayed by the holder thereof in a conspicuous place.
AR Code § 17-92-903 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 17 - Professions, Occupations, and Businesses|Subtitle 3 - Medical Professions|Chapter 92 - Pharmacists and Pharmacies|Subchapter 9 - Suppliers|§ 17-92-903. Exemption from license and permit requirements

 (a) The licensure requirements of this subchapter and any retail pharmacy permit requirements that may apply to the distribution or provision of legend medical gases, medical equipment, legend devices, and medical supplies, except legend drugs, do not apply to the following unless the following have a separate company, corporation, division, or other business entity that is in the business of providing medical equipment for sale or rent to a patient at his or her home as covered by this subchapter:  (1) Home health agencies;  (2) Hospitals;  (3) Manufacturers and wholesale distributors when not selling directly to the patient;  (4) Healthcare practitioners legally eligible to prescribe or order home medical equipment, medical gases, and legend devices;  (5) Medical doctors, physical therapists, respiratory therapists, occupational therapists, speech pathologists, optometrists, chiropractors, and podiatrists who use home medical equipment or legend devices, or both, to treat patients;  (6) Nurses who use but do not sell home medical equipment or legend devices, or both, to their patients;  (7) Pharmacies;  (8) Hospice programs;  (9) Nursing homes;  (10) Veterinarians;  (11) Dentists; and  (12) Emergency medical services.    (b) Although excluded from a separate licensure requirement for medical equipment, pharmacies shall be subject to the same rules for the sale or rental of medical equipment covered by this subchapter.
AR Code § 17-92-904 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 17 - Professions, Occupations, and Businesses|Subtitle 3 - Medical Professions|Chapter 92 - Pharmacists and Pharmacies|Subchapter 9 - Suppliers|§ 17-92-904. Supply order required

 (a) Home medical equipment, legend device, and medical gas suppliers shall not supply medical gases or legend devices to a patient without an order.  (b)  (1) Orders may be issued for institutional, medical practitioner, and individual patient use.  (2) It is also recognized that oxygen, liquid oxygen, and legend devices may be used in emergencies by trained individuals.  (3) Nothing in this subchapter shall prohibit the prehospital emergency administration of oxygen by licensed healthcare providers, emergency medical technicians, first responders, firefighters, law enforcement officers, and other emergency personnel trained in the proper use of emergency oxygen.