Illinois Administrative Code › Title 68 - PROFESSIONS AND OCCUPATIONS › Part 1330 - PHARMACY PRACTICE ACT › Subpart A - GENERAL PROVISIONS › Section 1330.30 - Unprofessional and Unethical Conduct

Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 28, July 12, 2024
Unprofessional and unethical conduct by a licensee or
				  registrant shall include, but not be limited to:
a) Failing to establish and maintain
				effective controls against diversion of prescription drugs.
b) Committing theft or diversion, or
				attempting to commit theft or diversion, by a registrant or licensee.
c) Making or filing a report or record that a
				pharmacist or pharmacy knows to be false or intentionally or negligently
				failing to file a report or keep records as required by the Act or this
				Part.
d) Knowingly dispensing a
				prescription drug after the death of the person for whom the prescription was
				written.
e) Billing or charging for
				quantities of drugs greater than that which was delivered or charging patients
				for a brand drug when a generic is dispensed.
f) Submitting fraudulent billing or reports
				to a third party payer or claiming a fee for a service that is not performed or
				earned.
g) Filling a prescription
				when a pharmacist knows, or reasonably should know, that no valid
				physician-patient relationship exists or failing to exercise sound professional
				judgment with respect to the accuracy and authenticity of any prescription/drug
				order dispensed.
h) Failing to
				provide patient counseling in accordance with this Part, failing to respond to
				requests for patient counseling, attempting to circumvent patient counseling
				requirements, or otherwise discouraging patients from receiving patient
				counseling concerning their prescription medications.
i) Discriminating in any manner against a
				person or group based upon that person or group's religion, race, creed, color,
				gender, sexual orientation, age or national origin.
j) Knowingly dispensing a prescription drug
				without a valid prescription. Dispensing or offering to dispense any drug not
				approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), found in the USP-NF, or
				found on the list promulgated by the FDA for bulk drug substances that may be
				used to compound drug products.
k)
				Failing to keep one's self and one's apparel clean or to wear identification
				bearing name and designation.
l)
				Directly or indirectly furnishing to a medical practitioner prescription
				order-blanks that refer to a specific pharmacist or pharmacy in any
				manner.
m) Actively or passively
				participating in any arrangement or agreement in which a prescription
				order-blank is prepared, written, or issued in a manner that refers to a
				specific pharmacist or pharmacy. Pharmacy-branded enrollment forms, when a
				patient requests his or her prescriptions be filled at a specific pharmacy, and
				Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategies documents containing prescription
				information are not prohibited by this subsection.
n) Dividing a prescription order unless
				directed by the prescriber, payer or patient or when the full quantity of that
				prescription medication is not available at that location.
o) Committing dispensing errors that result
				in hospitalization of a patient or demonstrating a pattern and practice of
				dispensing errors.
p) Committing an
				act or acts that are of a flagrant and obvious nature so as to constitute
				conduct of such a distasteful nature that accepted codes of behavior or codes
				of ethics are breached.
q)
				Committing an act or acts in a relationship with a patient that violate common
				standards of decency or propriety.
r) Willfully violating, or knowingly
				assisting in the violation of, any law relating to the use of habit-forming
				controlled substances.