Nevada Administrative Code › Chapter 639 - Pharmacists and Pharmacy › TRADE PRACTICES › Section 639.7125 - Use of fulfillment pharmacy by dispensing pharmacy

Current through June 11, 2024
1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection
			 2, a prescription may be filled or refilled by a fulfillment pharmacy for a
			 dispensing pharmacy if:
(a) The fulfillment
			 pharmacy enters the data concerning the prescription into its computer system
			 directly or the dispensing pharmacy enters the data concerning the prescription
			 into its computer system and transfers that data to the computer system of the
			 fulfillment pharmacy in a secure and confidential manner;
(b) The computer system of the dispensing
			 pharmacy:
(1) Transmits to the computer
			 system of the fulfillment pharmacy the National Drug Code number of the drug
			 that the fulfillment pharmacy must use to fill or refill the
			 prescription;
(2) Makes and retains
			 a record documenting the date and time that the prescription is transmitted to
			 the fulfillment pharmacy and the identity of the fulfillment pharmacy;
			 and
(3) If applicable,
			 automatically reduces the number of refills of the prescription;
(c) The computer systems of the
			 dispensing pharmacy and the fulfillment pharmacy are operated in compliance
			 with the applicable provisions of this chapter and chapter 639 of
			 NRS;
(d) The fulfillment pharmacy
			 labels the container in which the prescription will be dispensed in compliance
			 with
			 NRS
			 639.2801 using a label from the dispensing
			 pharmacy or a label that contains the same information as the dispensing
			 pharmacy would have been required to place on the label if the dispensing
			 pharmacy had filled or refilled the prescription;
(e) For each prescription that is being
			 filled for the first time:
(1) A pharmacist
			 employed by the dispensing pharmacy or a pharmacist employed by the fulfillment
			 pharmacy verifies the correctness of the data in the computer system of the
			 dispensing pharmacy concerning the prescription before the prescription is
			 filled by the fulfillment pharmacy, and:
(I)
			 If the computer system of the dispensing pharmacy is capable of recording the
			 identification of the pharmacist and the date and time when the pharmacist
			 performed the verification, the pharmacist properly records in the computer
			 system of the dispensing pharmacy the verification of the data; or
(II) Makes a written notation of the
			 verification of the data directly on the prescription; or
(2) If the dispensing pharmacy receives the
			 prescription drug from the fulfillment pharmacy, a pharmacist employed by the
			 dispensing pharmacy verifies the correctness of the prescription drug ordered
			 by the prescription when it is received from the fulfillment pharmacy and the
			 pharmacist makes a written notation on the prescription or in the record of the
			 prescription in the computer system of the dispensing pharmacy that includes
			 the name of the pharmacist and the date on which the pharmacist performed the
			 verification;
(f) For
			 each prescription that is being refilled by the fulfillment pharmacy, a
			 pharmacist or any other person employed by the dispensing pharmacy makes a
			 record, by hand on a written document or in the record of the prescription in
			 the computer system of the dispensing pharmacy, that includes:
(1) The date that the request to refill the
			 prescription was sent to the fulfillment pharmacy; and
(2) The date that the prescription drug
			 ordered to refill the prescription was received by the dispensing pharmacy from
			 the fulfillment pharmacy; and
(g) A pharmacist employed by the dispensing
			 pharmacy verifies the correctness of the prescription drug ordered to refill
			 the prescription if the prescription drug is received from the fulfillment
			 pharmacy and if, in his or her professional judgment, the pharmacist determines
			 such verification is necessary.