Gov. Asa Hutchinson (R) appointed pharmacist Lynn Crouse, PharmD, to a six-year term on the Board of Pharmacy.

For more information, contact NACDS’ Mary Staples at 817-442-1155.

The Board of Pharmacy will be meeting in Little Rock on Tuesday and Wednesday, June 5 and 6. The following regulatory changes will be considered at a public hearing on Wednesday, June 6:

• REGULATION 5 – LONG-TERM-CARE FACILITIES: Proposed changes will update language regarding destruction of unused drugs for long-term care facilities to remove outdated language, update emergency kit guidelines for use in long-term care and establish a list of emergency medications that can be used in Crisis Stabilization Units.
• REGULATION 7 – DRUG PRODUCTS/PRESCRIPTIONS: Proposed changes will reduce regulatory burdens when transferring prescriptions between pharmacies and add language to specify that a pharmacist cannot dispense more of a Schedule II narcotic medication than a prescriber can prescribe.
• REGULATION 8 – WHOLESALE DISTRIBUTION: Proposed changes will clarify language in Regulation 8 to match statutory language in 17-92-108 and will also allow an outsourcing facility to operate under a single permit if they do not provide medications directly to patients.

For more information, contact NACDS’ Mary Staples at 817-442-1155.

As a result of the special session convened last week, Gov. Asa Hutchinson (R) signed into law a PBM licensure bill that grants power to the state’s Insurance Department to regulate how PBMs operate in the state.

For more information, contact NACDS’ Mary Staples at 817-442-1155.