Bill Text: WV SB507 | 2017 | Regular Session | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Allowing pharmacists inform customers about lower cost alternatives to prescribed drugs
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 6-2)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2017-03-31 - To House Judiciary [SB507 Detail]
Download: West_Virginia-2017-SB507-Comm_Sub.html
WEST virginia legislature
2017 regular session
Committee Substitute
for
Committee Substitute
for
Senate Bill 507
By Senators Cline, Maynard, Ojeda, Rucker, Smith, Swope, Takubo and Stollings
[Originating in the Committee on the Judiciary; reported on March 27, 2017]
A BILL to amend and reenact §30-5-10 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended; and to amend said code by adding thereto a new section, designated §30-5-12a, all relating to expanding permissible scope of practice for licensed pharmacists; permitting pharmacists to inform customers about lower cost alternatives for their prescriptions, dispense and deliver those alternatives and to inform customers if their copay exceeds the cost for their prescriptions; and declaring public policy.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That §30-5-10 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, be amended and reenacted; and that said code be amended by adding thereto a new section, designated §30-5-12a, all to read as follows:
ARTICLE 5. PHARMACISTS, PHARMACY TECHNICIANS, PHARMACY INTERNS AND PHARMACIES.
§30-5-10. Scope practice for licensed pharmacist;
(a) A licensed pharmacist may:
(1) Provide care related to the interpretation, evaluation and implementation of medical orders;
(2) Dispense of
prescription drug orders; participate in drug and device selection;
(3) Provide drug administration;
(4) Provide drug regimen review;
(5) Provide drug or drug-related research;
(6) Perform patient counseling;
(7) Provide pharmacy-related primary care;
(8) Provide pharmacist care in all areas of patient care, including collaborative pharmacy practice;
(9) Compound and label drugs and drug devices;
(10) Proper Provide
for the proper and safe storage of drugs and devices;
(11) Maintain proper records;
(12) Provide patient counseling concerning the therapeutic value and proper use of drugs and devices;
(13) Order laboratory tests
in accordance with drug therapy management; and
(14) Provide medication therapy management;
(15) Inform customers about lower cost alternatives for their prescription, including, but not limited to, biosimilar and generic drugs, and dispense and deliver those alternatives: Provided, That any therapeutic equivalent drug is authorized by the prescriber before it is dispensed; and
(16) Inform customers if their copay exceeds the cost for their prescriptions.
(b) A licensee meeting the requirements as promulgated by legislative rule may administer immunizations.
(c) The sale of any
medicine, if the contents of its container, or any part thereof, taken at one
time, are likely to prove poisonous, deleterious, or habit-forming is
prohibited by any person other than a registered pharmacist, who shall take
precautions to acquaint the purchaser of the nature of the medicine at the time
of sale.
§30-5-12a. Public policy declaration.
It is declared to be the public policy of the State of West Virginia that pharmacy customers be able to receive information that enables them to make informed decisions about the cost to fill their prescription.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from a heading or the present law and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.
