Arkansas Administrative Code › Agency 007 - ARKANSAS DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH › Division 39 - Board of Pharmacy › Rule 007.39.22-003 - RULE 7 - DRUG PRODUCTS/PRESCRIPTIONS

Current through Register Vol. 49, No. 6, June, 2024
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GENERAL RULES REGARDING
			 DRUGS/PRESCRIPTIONS
Definitions:
"Prescription" means an order for medicine or medicines usually
				written as a formula by a physician, optometrist, dentist, veterinarian, or
				other licensed medicinal practitioner. It contains the names and quantities of
				the desired substance, with instructions to the pharmacist for its preparation
				and to the patient for the use of the medicine at a particular time and may
				authorize the pharmacist to substitute a therapeutically equivalent drug that
				is at an equal or lower cost to the patient and communicate that authorization
				by any generally accepted means of communication of a prescription from a
				prescriber to a pharmacist.
"Prescription drug order" means a lawful order of a
				practitioner for a drug or device for a specific patient that is communicated
				to a pharmacist.
"Therapeutic class" means a group of similar drug products that
				have the same or similar mechanisms of action and are used to treat a specific
				condition;
"Therapeutically equivalent" means drug products from the same
				therapeutic class that if administered in appropriate amounts will provide the
				same therapeutic effect, identical in duration and intensity
"Written prescription" means a prescription that is presented
				to an apothecary, pharmacy or pharmacist in compliance with federal law and
				regulations, including a written, oral, faxed, or electronic prescription.
				(5/31/2014, Amended 11/30/2014, and 5/10/2022)
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-Facsimile (Fax)
			 Prescription Drug Order
A prescription drug order which is transmitted by an electronic
				device which sends an exact copy image to the receiver (pharmacy) over
				telephone lines.
(a) Faxing Schedule
			 II prescriptions
(1) Faxing a Schedule II
			 prescription for a home infusion, or intravenous pain therapy patient or both -
			 a prescription, written for a Schedule II narcotic substance to be compounded
			 for direct administration to a home infusion patient by parenteral,
			 intravenous, intramuscular, subcutaneous or intraspinal infusion, may be
			 transmitted directly from the prescribing practitioner, by the practitioner or
			 the practitioner's agent, to the pharmacy by facsimile. The facsimile serves as
			 the original written prescription. This exception does not apply to oral dose
			 medications. (Also see rule
			 07-04-0001)
(2) Faxing a Schedule II prescription for a
			 long-term-care patient - a prescription written for a Schedule II substance,
			 for a resident of a long-term-care facility may be transmitted directly from
			 the prescribing individual practitioner, or the practitioner's agent, to the
			 provider pharmacy by facsimile. The facsimile serves as the original written
			 prescription. (See also rule
			 07-04-0001)
(3) A prescription written for a Schedule II
			 substance, for a home hospice patient may be transmitted by the practitioner or
			 the practitioner's agent to the dispensing pharmacy by facsimile. It must be
			 noted on the prescription that this is a hospice patient. The facsimile serves
			 as the original written prescription. (see rule
			 07-04-0001)