MPJE key dates

When do new pharmacy permit applications with AUPs be submitted

60 days prior to a regulatory commission business session

When does a pharmacy technician need to pass their nation certification exam?

Within 1 year of completing a commission approved training program

When does the community pharmacy need appoint and inform the name of the RPM when employment is terminated (note the RPM themselves should also notify the commission of termination in this same time frame)

Within 10 business days

In community pharmacy, the event of an RPM vacancy, when must a replacement be appointed?

Within 30 days

Self-inspection: how long must the record be maintained and how soon should one be performed after a change in RPM

2 years; 30 days

Pharmacy commission inspections: when must pharmacy plan of correction be submitted

Within 10 days of receipt of state of deficiency

How often must non-resident pharmacy complete an inspection report

Upon initial licensure and renewal(must be conducted within 2 years of being submitted to the commission)

Hospital Pharmacy: if 24 hours are not available when must orders be reviewed by a pharmacist

Within 6 hours of opening

Emergency Outpatient medications: How much days supply can be given; when must oral or electronically transmitted orders be verified by the prescriber by?

No more than 48 hours supply, unless no outpatient pharmacy services are available within 48 hours, then 96 hours supply. Oral or electronically transmitted orders must be verified by the prescriber in writing within 72 hours.

Long term care facility: when must discontinued C-II be destroyed

Must be destroyed within 30 days

LTF: how often must a comprehensive review by a patient care team be done; how often must a drug regimen be reviewed by pharmacist

Comprehensive review: typically conducted every 90 days

Drug regimen must be reviewed by pharmacist ever 30 days

Closing of Pharmacy: when must intended date of closing; name/ address of who will have custody of pharmacy records, name/ address of who will acquire legend drugs?

30 days prior to closing

When must a written statement containing

-confirmation of legend drugs were transferred or destroyed

-list of drug/qty, date transferred

-confirmation that rx labels and blank Rx were destroyed

-All signs and symbols of pharmacy are removed

Within 15 days after closing

How often must oral contraceptive complete and brief inserts be provided?

-both must be dispensed each time drug is dispensed (for ambulatory patients

-In hospital must be provided at first dispensing, and once every 30 days

Expediated Partner Therapy for patients with chlamydia or gonorrhea: if public health clinic staff gives partner pack w/o an Rx, when does the individual case need be reviewed by a licensed prescriber?

Within 7 days

Medicaid Tramper Resistant Prescription Pads: if you fill a non-complying Rx in an emergency when must you receive confirmation form prescriber by fax, phone or email

Within 72 hours

Time limit for legend drugs and controls Rxs

Legand Drugs: 1 year

C-II through C-V: 6 months

BUD for nonsterile compounds (non-preserved aqueous; preserved aqueous; nonaqueous dosage forms; solid dosage forms)

non-preserved aqueous - 14 days

preserved aqueous - 35 days

nonaqueous dosage forms - 90 days

solid dosage forms - 180 days

BUD 797 sterile compounding (category 1, category 2 only sterile starting components, category 2 one or more non-sterile starting components)

Category 1

•    ≤ 12 hours at controlled room temperature

•   ≤ 24 hours in a refrigerator

Category 2

only sterile starting components (no sterility testing)

• 4 days at CRT

• 10 days in a refrigerator

•   45 days in a freezer

one or more nonsterile starting components (no sterility testing)

• 1 day at controlled room temperature

• 4 days in a refrigerator

• 45 days in a freezer

Partial fills for C-II: when must then filled (nursing home/ terminally ill; not able to supply drug or pt cannot pay; when requested by patient or physician)

nursing home/ terminally ill: can do partial fills up to 60 days from written date

not able to supply drug or pt cannot pay: must be filled within 72 hours or not at all

when requested by patient or physician): within 30 days

Federal rule for OTC Schedule V products

Opium containing antidiarrheal: no more than 240 mL or 48 doses within 48 hours

Codeine containing pain relievers: no more than 24 solid doses within 48 hours

Codeine containing cough syrups (guaifenesin and codeine): no more than 120 mL within 48 hours

Consultation for pain management

120 morphine equivalent dose per day (MEDD)

Methadone outside narcotic treatment program (how many days may be administered at one time, how many days may treatment be provided)

No more than 1 day drugs may be administered at a time

No more than 3 days treatment may be provided

Personal use of marijuana (how many ounces, how many plants) - non medical

up to 1 ounce of usable marijuana

grow up to 4 plants

Medical marijuana possession and plants

Up to 15 plants grown

Can possess up to 16 oz of usable marijuana

Patient right to see a copy of their record by when

15 days can get a one-time extension for total of 21 days

Correction to records (how soon?)

10 days; one time extension for up to 21 days