Illinois Administrative Code › Title 77 - PUBLIC HEALTH › Part 3100 - ILLINOIS CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES ACT › Section 3100.80 - Exemption of Agents and Employees: Affiliated Practitioners

Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 28, July 12, 2024
a) The requirement of licensure is waived for
			 any agent or employee of a person who is licensed to engage in any group of
			 independent activities (see Section
			 3100.50
			 ), if the agent or employee is acting in the usual course of his or her
			 business or employment.
b) An
			 individual practitioner who is an agent or employee of another practitioner
			 licensed to dispense controlled substances may, when acting in the usual course
			 of his or her employment, administer and dispense (other than by issuance of a
			 prescription) controlled substances if and to the extent that the individual
			 practitioner is authorized or permitted to do so by the employer or principal
			 practitioner, under the license of the employer or principal practitioner, in
			 lieu of being licensed himself or herself.
c) In a licensed hospital, hospital
			 affiliate, or licensed ambulatory surgical treatment center ("institution") a
			 licensed advanced practice nurse, acting pursuant to Section 65-45 of the Nurse
			 Practice Act, or a physician assistant, acting pursuant to Section 7.7 of the
			 Physician Assistant Practice Act of 1987, may be granted clinical privileges,
			 including the authority to select, order and administer, and issue discharge
			 prescriptions for, controlled substances under the DEA registration number of
			 the hospital, hospital affiliate or licensed ambulatory surgical treatment
			 center by whom he or she is employed.
d) In a licensed hospital or affiliated
			 training facility ("institution"), a holder of a Temporary License, pursuant to
			 Section 17 of the Medical Practice Act [225
			 ILCS 60/17 ], may select, order and administer, and
			 issue discharge prescriptions for, controlled substances under the DEA
			 registration number of the hospital or affiliated training facility by whom he
			 or she is employed.
e) The
			 exemptions provided for advanced practice nurses, physician assistants and
			 temporary license holders in subsections (c) and (d) are subject to the
			 following conditions:
1) The selection,
			 ordering and administration of, and issuance of discharge prescriptions for,
			 controlled substances is done in the usual course of his or her professional
			 practice or training program;
2)
			 The institution by whom he or she is employed has verified that the individual
			 practitioner is authorized by the institution's medical staff, or medical staff
			 committee, to select, order and administer, and issue discharge prescriptions
			 for, controlled substances;
3) The
			 advanced practice nurse, physician assistant or temporary license holder is
			 acting only within the scope of his or her employment;
4) The institution authorizes the temporary
			 license holder, advanced practice nurse or physician assistant to select, order
			 and administer, and issue discharge prescriptions for, controlled substances
			 under the institution's registration and designates a specific internal code
			 number for each temporary license holder, advanced practice nurse or physician
			 assitant so authorized. The code number shall consist of numbers, letters or a
			 combination of numbers and letters and shall be a suffix to the institution's
			 DEA registration number, preceded by a hyphen (e.g., APO 123456-10 or APO
			 123456-A12);
5) A current list of
			 internal codes and the corresponding temporary license holder, advanced
			 practice nurse or physician assistant is kept by the institution and is made
			 available at all times to other licensees and law enforcement agencies upon
			 request for the purpose of verifying the authority of the temporary license
			 holder, advanced practice nurse or physician assistant; and
6) A temporary license holder, advanced
			 practice nurse or physician assistant shall include on all prescriptions issued
			 by him or her the registration number of the institution, his or her specific
			 internal code number, and his or her name.