§ 53-11-312. Educational Materials for Providers and Facilities Where Medication Assisted Treatment Is Prescribed or Provided
No later than January 1, 2021, the departments of health and mental health and substance abuse services, and the bureau of TennCare shall collaborate to develop educational materials for providers and facilities where medication assisted treatment including treatment involving controlled substances is prescribed or provided. The educational materials shall include the following: Access to and […]
§ 53-11-313. Payment for Buprenorphine Products
Except as provided in subsection (b), a healthcare prescriber of a buprenorphine product for use in recovery or medication-assisted treatment, or a nonresidential office-based opiate treatment facility, as defined in § 33-2-402, shall only accept a check, money order, or debit card or credit card that is linked to a bank or credit card account […]
§ 53-11-302. Handlers of Controlled Substances — Registration and Inspection
Every person who manufactures, distributes, dispenses, or is a third-party logistics provider for any controlled substance pursuant to § 53-11-301 within this state or who proposes to engage in the manufacture, distribution, dispensing, warehousing, or providing logistics services for any controlled substance within this state, shall annually obtain a registration issued by the board of […]
§ 53-11-303. Criteria for Registration Issuance
The state board of pharmacy and the appropriate occupational or professional licensing board governing persons who may legally dispense controlled substances shall register an applicant to manufacture or distribute controlled substances included in title 39, chapter 17, part 4, unless it determines that the issuance of that registration would be inconsistent with the public interest. […]
§ 53-11-304. Suspension and Revocation of Registration
A registration under § 53-11-302 to manufacture, warehouse, distribute, dispense, or provide logistics services for a controlled substance may be suspended or revoked by the board of pharmacy and the appropriate occupational or professional licensing board governing persons who may legally dispense controlled substances upon a finding that the registrant has: Furnished false or fraudulent […]
§ 53-11-305. Revocation, Suspension or Denial of Registration
Before denying, suspending or revoking a registration, or refusing a renewal of registration, the board of pharmacy and the appropriate occupational or professional licensing board governing persons who may legally dispense controlled substances shall serve upon the applicant or registrant an order to show cause why registration should not be denied, revoked or suspended, or […]
§ 53-11-306. Records and Inventories Required
Persons registered to manufacture, distribute or dispense controlled substances under this part and part 4 of this chapter and title 39, chapter 17, part 4, shall keep records and maintain inventories in conformance with the record keeping and inventory requirements of federal law, and with any additional rules the board of pharmacy and the appropriate […]
§ 53-11-307. Inter-Registrant Distribution
Controlled substances in Schedules I and II shall be distributed by a registrant to another registrant only pursuant to an order form. Compliance with federal law respecting order forms shall be deemed compliance with this section.
§ 53-11-308. Prescription Requirements
Except when dispensed directly by a health care prescriber other than a pharmacy to an ultimate user, no controlled substance in Schedule II may be dispensed without the electronic prescription of a health care prescriber, unless authorized by § 63-1-160. To the extent federal law does not permit an electronic prescription, a written prescription from […]
§ 53-11-309. Reporting Persons Obtaining or Attempting to Obtain Controlled Substances — Immunity — Exception
Any physician, dentist, optometrist, podiatrist, veterinarian, pharmacist, advanced practice registered nurse with a certificate of fitness issued under title 63, chapter 7, or physician assistant, hereinafter referred to collectively as “health care providers”, who has actual knowledge that a person has knowingly, willfully and with intent to deceive, obtained or attempted to obtain controlled substances […]