Medical Offices

Question 1

In a medical office, who is allowed to prescribe/dispense drugs?

Answer 1

Any prescriber who is allowed to prescribe meds can dispense them

Question 2

What can registered professional nurses do in a medical office?

Answer 2

Possess and administer drugs and devices pursuant to a non-specific patient specific regimen prescribed by a licensed physician or NP

Question 3

Restrictions on drug samples in medical offices

Answer 3

Prescription drug samples can only be distributed to licensed practitioners or to pharmacies inside hospitals or other healthcare entities upon the written request of a licensed practitioner

Question 4

What pharmacies are NOT allowed to give out drug samples?

Answer 4

Retail

Question 5

What about controlled substance samples?

Answer 5

Nope, not allowed

Question 6

Exception for controlled substance samples

Answer 6

If it’s for research/instructional activities/chemical analysis

Question 7

Prescribers are allowed to dispense prescriptions (including non-controls) up to how many days’ supply?

Answer 7

72 hours

Question 8

Exception to the 72-hour rule for prescribers dispensing prescriptions

Answer 8

Patient lives more than 10 miles away from a pharmacy
Dispense drugs at no charge to the patients
medical emergency
drug is compounded by the prescriber
oncology/AIDS protocol

Question 9

Exception to the 72-hour rule: how many days’ supply of a control can a prescriber dispense then?

Answer 9

30 days

Question 10

Prescribers dispensing controlled substances: how long of a supply can they write for an anabolic steroid?

Answer 10

6 months

Question 11

Prescribers dispensing: how long of a supply can they write for chorionic gonadotropin?

Answer 11

3 months

Question 12

Prescribers reporting for controlled substance dispensing

Answer 12

They follow the same rule as pharmacists for controlled substances- have to report data to the BNE within 72 hours

Question 13

Dispensing in a medical office: what has to be on the label

Answer 13

Prescriber’s name/address
Patient’s name/address
Name of drug, strength, directions, date of delivery

Question 14

Dispensing in a medical office: what has to be in the patient’s record

Answer 14

The fact the drug got dispensed
Quantity
Dose
Directions
Number of refills (if any)

Question 15

Can pharmacies supply medical offices?

Answer 15

I think they can? (BPI supplies a local eye office Avastin regularly)

The medical offices can’t use them to compound, dispense, sell them, wholesale it, or manufacture with