# COMAR Title 10 — Maryland Department of Health

## Subtitle 34 — Board of Pharmacy

### Chapter 04 — Transfer and Outsourcing of Prescriptions and Prescription Orders

#### Regulation .07 Outsourcing of a Prescription Order.

*COMAR 10.34.04.07*

A pharmacist from a primary pharmacy may transmit a prescription order to a secondary pharmacy for preparation and final dispensing to a specific patient or for return to the primary pharmacy for final dispensing to a specific patient if:

A. The label contains the name, address, and phone number of the primary pharmacy;

B. The patient is informed in writing of the name and address of the secondary pharmacy;

C. The patient is informed in writing that the prescription order was prepared at a secondary pharmacy;

D. The original prescription order is filed as a prescription order at the primary pharmacy;

E. The pharmacist from the primary pharmacy documents in a readily retrievable and identifiable manner:

  (1) That the prescription order was prepared by a secondary pharmacy;

  (2) The name of the secondary pharmacy;

  (3) The name of the pharmacist who transmitted the prescription order to the secondary pharmacy;

  (4) The name of the pharmacist at the secondary pharmacy to whom the prescription order was transmitted if the transmission occurred in an oral manner;

  (5) The date on which the prescription was transmitted to the secondary pharmacy; and

  (6) The date on which the medication was sent to the primary pharmacy;

F. Both the primary and secondary pharmacies are licensed in this State, or operated by the federal government; and

G. The primary pharmacy maintains, in a readily retrievable and identifiable manner, a record of preparations received from the secondary pharmacy.