Prescription Department Managers

 

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH

Board of Pharmacy

RULE NO.:RULE TITLE:

64B16-27.450Prescription Department Managers

NOTICE OF CHANGE

Notice is hereby given that the following changes have been made to the proposed rule in accordance with subparagraph 120.54(3)(d)1., F.S., published in Vol. 44 No. 47, March 8, 2018 issue of the Florida Administrative Register.

The change is in response to written comments submitted by the staff of the Joint Administrative Procedures Committee and discussion and subsequent vote by the board at the public meeting held April 4, 2018. The rule shall now read as follows:

64B16-27.450 Prescription Department Managers.

(1) Designation as Prescription Department Manager.

(a) No change.

(b) Change of prescription department manager. No later than ten (10) days after a change of designated prescription department manager for a community pharmacy, a Special Parenteral and Enteral pharmacy, a Special Closed System pharmacy, or a Nuclear pharmacy, or a Special Sterile Compounding permitee, or thirty (30) days for an internet pharmacy, both the pharmacy permittee and the newly designated prescription department manager shall notify the Board of the change and the identity of the newly designated prescription department manager. Notification shall be accomplished by completing Form DOH/MQA/PH10, 01/18, Prescription Department Manager (PDM) Designation and Privacy Statement Acknowledgement Change of Prescription Department Manager, which is hereby incorporated by reference and which can be obtained from http://www.flrules.org/Gateway/reference.asp?No=Ref-     , the Board of Pharmacy, 4052 Bald Cypress Way, Bin #C04, Tallahassee, Florida 32399-3254, or the Board's website at http://floridaspharmacy.gov/Applications/app-change-perscription-dept-manager.pdf.  In addition, an outgoing prescription department manager may choose to notify the Board they will no longer serve as prescription department manager using this form.

(c) No change.

(2) through (4) No change.

Rulemaking Authority 465.005, 465.0155, 465.022(1), (10) FS. Law Implemented 456.0135, 465.018(2), 465.0197(1), (3)(b), 465.022(2), (3), (10), (11) FS. History–New 3-9-17,                           .

 

The following changes have been made to incorporated form DOH/MQA/PH10:

• The spelling of “acknowledgement” has been made consistent on the form.
• A signature line has been added for the representative of the applicant/pharmacy to sign.

THE PERSON TO BE CONTACTED REGARDING THE PROPOSED RULE IS: C. Erica White, Executive Director, Board of Pharmacy, 4052 Bald Cypress Way, Bin #C04, Tallahassee, Florida 32399-3254.