Are Physician Assistants and Nurse Practitioners who only dispense sample medications required to register with the Board under Rule .1703?
The Board has received numerous inquiries from physician assistants and nurse practitioners about Board of Pharmacy Rule .1703. PAs and NPs have asked whether that rule’s registration, permitting, and oversight requirements apply when a PA or NP is simply handing out prescription drug samples to patients. The Board does not interpret Rule .1703’s requirements to apply to a PA or NP who is engaged in traditional sampling – i.e., handing out, free of any charge (whether direct or indirect), starter doses or packets of prescription drug samples received from a prescription drug manufacturer in compliance with the Prescription Drug Marketing Act.
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- Are Physician Assistants and Nurse Practitioners who only dispense sample medications required to register with the Board under Rule .1703?
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