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<regulation prefix="Regulation" num=".07" citation="COMAR 10.34.04.07" title_num="10" subtitle_num="34" chapter_num="04" heading="Outsourcing of a Prescription Order.">
  <text>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:</text>
  <paragraph num="A.">
    <text>The label contains the name, address, and phone number of the primary pharmacy;</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="B.">
    <text>The patient is informed in writing of the name and address of the secondary pharmacy;</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="C.">
    <text>The patient is informed in writing that the prescription order was prepared at a secondary pharmacy;</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="D.">
    <text>The original prescription order is filed as a prescription order at the primary pharmacy;</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="E.">
    <text>The pharmacist from the primary pharmacy documents in a readily retrievable and identifiable manner:</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>That the prescription order was prepared by a secondary pharmacy;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>The name of the secondary pharmacy;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(3)">
      <text>The name of the pharmacist who transmitted the prescription order to the secondary pharmacy;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(4)">
      <text>The name of the pharmacist at the secondary pharmacy to whom the prescription order was transmitted if the transmission occurred in an oral manner;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(5)">
      <text>The date on which the prescription was transmitted to the secondary pharmacy; and</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(6)">
      <text>The date on which the medication was sent to the primary pharmacy;</text>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="F.">
    <text>Both the primary and secondary pharmacies are licensed in this State, or operated by the federal government; and</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="G.">
    <text>The primary pharmacy maintains, in a readily retrievable and identifiable manner, a record of preparations received from the secondary pharmacy.</text>
  </paragraph>
</regulation>