22 Tex. Admin. Code § 315.15 - Access Requirements
(a) Effective March
1, 2020, a pharmacist before dispensing an outpatient prescription for an
opioid, benzodiazepine, barbiturate, or carisoprodol for a patient shall
consult the Texas Prescription Monitoring Program (PMP) database to review the
patient's controlled substance history. The dispensing pharmacist of an
outpatient prescription shall be responsible for the review of the PMP database
prior to dispensing the prescription, unless the pharmacy has designated
another pharmacist whose identity has been recorded in the pharmacy's data
processing system as responsible for PMP review.
(b) The duty to consult the PMP database as
described in subsection (a) of this section does not apply in the following
circumstances:
(1) the prescribing individual
practitioner is a veterinarian;
(2)
it is clearly noted in the prescription record that the patient has a diagnosis
of cancer or sickle cell disease or is in hospice care; or
(3) the pharmacist is unable to access the
PMP after making and documenting a good faith effort to do so.
(c) If a pharmacist uses pharmacy
management systems that integrate data from the PMP, a review of the pharmacy
management system with the integrated data shall be deemed compliant with the
review of the PMP database as required under §
481.0764(a)
of the Texas Health and Safety Code and in subsection (a) of this
section.
(d) Pharmacists and
pharmacy technicians acting at the direction of a pharmacist may only access
information contained in the PMP as authorized in §481.076 of Texas
Controlled Substances Act. A person who is authorized to access the PMP may
only do so utilizing that person's assigned identifier (i.e., login and
password) and may not use the assigned identifier of another person.
Unauthorized access of PMP information is a violation of Texas Controlled
Substances Act, the Texas Pharmacy Act, and board rules.
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