The Board of Pharmacy has completed a rulemaking to create new Rule .2515, “Remote Work by Pharmacy Personnel.” The rule authorizes, and governs, a pharmacy’s use of its own pharmacy personnel employees to perform certain remote operations. The rule is effective May 1, 2022.
The Board’s March 17, 2020, Expanded Emergency Services Waiver, issued because of the COVID-19 public health emergency, previously authorized intra-pharmacy remote operations. New Rule .2515 does not differ materially from the waiver provisions concerning intra-pharmacy remote operations.
Accordingly, Rule .2515 (and not the waiver) will govern this practice come May 1. Detailed guidance to Rule .2515 is found here. Please note, a different rule, Rule. 1816, governs inter-pharmacy remote medication order processing arrangements. Detailed guidance to that rule is found here.
Also in North Carolina, all the respective statewide standing orders for all new therapies allowed under HB 96 can be found here.
For more information, contact NACDS’ Leigh Knotts at 803-243-7207.