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<section article="gho" article_name="Health Occupations" number="12-514" title_number="12" title_name="Pharmacists and Pharmacies" subtitle_number="5" subtitle_name="Practice of Pharmacy and Operation of Pharmacies">
  <level label="a">
    <text>A pharmacist who meets the requirements of the regulations adopted under this section may prescribe and dispense nicotine replacement therapy medications.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>On or before September 1, 2023, the Board shall adopt regulations establishing:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Standard procedures that a pharmacist shall use to:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>Prescribe and dispense to a patient the appropriate nicotine replacement therapy medication; and</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>Refer the patient to a primary care practitioner for treatment; and</text>
        </level>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>The conditions under which a pharmacist may prescribe and dispense nicotine replacement therapy medication.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The regulations shall require a pharmacist to:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Except as provided in paragraph (3) of this subsection, complete a training program approved by the Board for prescribing and dispensing nicotine replacement therapy medication;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Follow the standard procedures established by the Board; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>After prescribing and dispensing to a patient nicotine replacement therapy medication:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>Refer the patient for any additional care to the patient’s primary care practitioner;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>Provide the patient with:</text>
        </level>
        <level label="A">
          <text>A written record of the nicotine replacement therapy medication dispensed; and</text>
        </level>
        <level label="B">
          <text>Information on the importance of the patient seeing the patient’s primary care practitioner; and</text>
        </level>
        <level label="3">
          <text>Record the prescribing and dispensing of the nicotine replacement therapy medication in any electronic health record maintained for the patient by the pharmacist.</text>
        </level>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>The regulations shall waive the requirement to complete the training program under paragraph (2)(i) of this subsection for a pharmacist who already has undergone the training as part of the pharmacist’s formal educational program.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
