SB345 Alabama 2010 Session

Summary

Primary Sponsor

Larry Means Mayor

Democrat

Session

Regular Session 2010

Title

Prescription legend drugs, donation of drugs by hospitals, nursing homes, assisted living facilities, or hospices to charitable pharmacies, authorized, physicians' samples authorized to be donated and transferred to charitable clinics and pharmacies, Secs. 20-3-2, 20-3-3 am'd.

Description

Under existing law, legend drugs dispensed to a patient at a hospital, nursing facility, assisted living facility, or hospice may be donated and transferred to charitable clinics to be used by charitable patients without charge if certain conditions are met.

This bill would allow legend drugs to be dispensed by prescription but not administered to patients at certain health care facilities to be donated and transferred to charitable clinics under certain conditions; to authorize the drugs to be transferred in the same manner to charitable pharmacies, as defined, to be dispensed to charitable patients; and to further authorize samples given to physicians to be donated and transferred to charitable clinics and charitable pharmacies.

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Subjects

Health