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A Long Time Coming: DEA Regs Finally Authorize Schedule II Prescription Partial Fills

FDA Law Blog: Biosimilars

CARA amended the Controlled Substances Act (“CSA”) to enable physicians or patients to request pharmacists to partially fill prescriptions for schedule II substances including opioids and to allow remaining quantities to be filled up to 30 days after issuance of the prescription (up to 72 hours for emergency oral prescriptions).

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Unsolved Mysteries: NPI spoofing

Ramblings of a pharmacist

Encryption to validate identity is not a foreign concept to pharmacy transactions – electronically prescribed controlled substances (EPCS) have to have identity validation prior to transmission, usually via some kind of two factor authentication. in fees charged against our other claims payments).