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Section 124.550 - Definitions.

IA Code § 124.550 (2019) (N/A)
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124.550 Definitions.

For purposes of this subchapter, unless the context otherwise requires:

1. “Pharmacist” means a practicing pharmacist who is actively engaged in and responsible for the pharmaceutical care of the patient about whom information is requested.

2. “Prescribing practitioner” means a practitioner who has prescribed or is contemplating the authorization of a prescription for the patient about whom information is requested. “Prescribing practitioner” does not include a licensed veterinarian.

3. “Proactive notification” means a notification by the board, generated based on factors determined by the board and issued to a specific prescribing practitioner or pharmacist, indicating that a patient may be practitioner shopping or pharmacy shopping or at risk of abusing or misusing a controlled substance.

4. “Program” means the information program for drug prescribing and dispensing.

2016 Acts, ch 1052, §1; 2017 Acts, ch 54, §76; 2018 Acts, ch 1138, §1, 2, 17

Subsection 2 amended

NEW subsections 3 and 4

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