Reference is to Printer's Date 3/8/18-H.
Amend the bill, as and if amended, SECTION 1, by striking Section 44-53-1655(A) and inserting:
/ "Section
44-53-1655. (A) The
department shall develop and maintain as part of the
prescription monitoring program a system to provide prescription
report cards to practitioners to inform the practitioner about
certain prescribing trends. The report card must provide, at a
minimum:
(1)
a comparison of the practitioner's number of prescriptions
issued per month by therapeutic class code or by specific
substances to peer averages by specialty throughout the
State;
(2)
a comparison of the practitioner's number of milligrams
prescribed per month by therapeutic class code over by specific
substances to peer averages by specialty throughout the State;
(3)
the total number of patients receiving ninety morphine
milligram equivalents (MMEs) or more a day;
(4)
the total number of patients receiving opioid medications
for thirty days or more;
(5)
the total number of patients receiving opioids and
benzodiazepines medications at the same time;
(6)
the total number of patients issued prescriptions from
three or more practitioners;
(7)
the total number of patients filling prescriptions at
three or more pharmacies;
(8)
the total number of patients with controlled substance
prescriptions whose dispensing dates overlap;
(9)
the total number of patients obtaining refills on their
prescriptions more than one week early; and
(10)
the total number of prescription drug monitoring program
queries made by the practitioner and a ratio of the queries to
the number of patients or prescriptions issued.
The report card also must provide data on
the number of practitioners registered against which the
comparisons of items (1) and (2) are being made and any other
demographic data relating to the pool of practitioners and may
include regional or nationwide prescribing comparison data that
would be useful to the practitioner. Prescription report cards,
and data, documents, records, and any other information accessed
or compiled in preparing prescription report cards, are
confidential and not subject to discovery, subpoena, or
introduction into evidence in any civil action, unless
confidentiality is waived by the practitioner.
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Renumber sections to conform.
Amend title to conform.