318:42-a Automated Pharmacy Systems; Long-term Care Facilities, Hospices, or State Correctional Institutions. – I. A pharmacy may provide pharmacy services to a long-term care facility or hospice licensed under RSA 151 or to a state correctional institution through the use of an automated pharmacy system that need not be located at the same location […]
318:43 Repealed by 1979, 155:34, eff. Aug. 5, 1979. –
318:44 Repealed by 1979, 155:35, eff. Aug. 5, 1979. –
318:45 Repealed by 2019, 264:15, I, eff. Sept. 17, 2019. –
318:45-a Continuous Quality Improvement. – I. Each licensed pharmacy shall establish a continuous quality improvement program (CQI). The purpose of the program shall be to assess errors that occur in the pharmacy during the review, preparation, and dispensing of prescription medications and to allow the pharmacy to take appropriate action to prevent or reduce […]
318:46, 318:47 Repealed by 2019, 264:15, II, eff. Sept. 17, 2019. –
318:47-a Prescription Labels. – Whenever a pharmacist dispenses a noncontrolled drug pursuant to a prescription, he or she shall affix to the container in which such drug is dispensed a label showing at least the name and address of the pharmacy and the name or initials of the dispensing pharmacist or pharmacist-in-charge; the prescription […]
318:47-b Labeling Exemption. – Labeling requirements as specified in 318:47-a are exempted when medication is dispensed to institutionalized patients and as provided for under RSA 141-C:17. Source. 1979, 155:30. 2008, 271:8, eff. June 26, 2008.
318:47-c Prescriptions. – I. (a) A prescription may be written, oral, or electronically transmitted. All oral prescriptions shall be immediately reduced to writing by the pharmacist, authorized technician, or licensed advanced pharmacy technician receiving the oral prescription and shall indicate at least the name of the patient; the name, strength, and quantity of the […]
318:47-d Pharmacies; Substituting Generic Drugs. – Pharmacies, including mail-order pharmacies, may substitute generically equivalent drug products for all legend and non-legend prescriptions unless the prescribing practitioner handwrites "medically necessary" on each paper prescription, or uses electronic indications when transmitted electronically, or gives instructions when transmitted orally that the brand name drug product is medically […]
318:47-dd Pharmacies; Substituting Biological Products. – I. In this section: (a) " Biological product " means a virus, therapeutic serum, toxin, antitoxin, vaccine, blood, blood component or derivative, allergenic product, protein (except any chemically synthesized polypeptide), or analogous product, or arsphenamine or derivative of arsphenamine (or any other trivalent organic arsenic compound), applicable to […]
318:47-e Repealed by 2019, 264:15, III, eff. Sept. 17, 2019. –
318:47-f Prescription Information to be Kept Confidential. – Records relative to prescription information containing patient-identifiable and prescriber-identifiable data shall not be licensed, transferred, used, or sold by any pharmacy benefits manager, insurance company, electronic transmission intermediary, retail, mail order, or Internet pharmacy or other similar entity, for any commercial purpose, except for the limited […]
318:47-g Patient Assistance Program. – I. Following the close of each calendar year, any clearinghouse that provides information to New Hampshire residents about pharmaceutical manufacturers’ patient assistance programs shall, to the extent that the clearinghouse collects such information, provide aggregate information to the commissioner of the department of health and human services relative to […]
318:47-h Price of Filling Prescriptions. – I. A pharmacy benefits manager or insurer shall require a contracted pharmacy to charge an enrollee or insured person the pharmacy’s usual and customary price of filling the prescription or the contracted copayment, whichever is less. II. Once it has settled a claim for filling a prescription for […]
318:47-i Emergency Prescription. – In the event a pharmacist receives a request for a prescription that requires a prior authorization that has neither been approved nor denied, and such medication is determined by the pharmacist to be essential to the maintenance of life or to the continuation of therapy in a chronic condition, or […]
318:47-j Medicaid Coverage for Telehealth Services. – Under this chapter, Medicaid coverage for telehealth services shall comply with the provisions of 42 C.F.R. section 410.78 and RSA 167:4-d. Source. 2015, 246:2, eff. July 6, 2015 at 12:01 a.m.
318:47-k Repealed by 2017, 23:2, effective Dec. 1, 2017. –
318:47-l Hormonal Contraceptives; Dispensing. – I. In this section, " standing order " means a written and signed protocol authored by one or more physicians licensed under RSA 329:12 or one or more advanced practice registered nurses licensed under RSA 326-B:18. Such agreement shall specify a protocol allowing the pharmacist licensed under RSA 318:18 […]
318:47-m Nicotine Cessation Therapy. – I. In this section, " standing order " means a written and signed protocol authored by a physician licensed under RSA 329:12, a physician assistant licensed under RSA 328-D:2, or an advanced practice registered nurse licensed under RSA 326-B:18. The agreement shall specify a protocol allowing a licensed pharmacist […]
