Terms Used In Kansas Statutes 65-1669

  • Pharmacy: means a premises, laboratory, area or other place currently registered with the board where scheduled substances or drugs of concern are offered for sale or dispensed in this state. See Kansas Statutes 65-1682
  • Practitioner: means an individual licensed to practice medicine and surgery, dentist, podiatrist, optometrist or other individual authorized by law to prescribe or dispense scheduled substances and drugs of concern. See Kansas Statutes 65-1682
  • Program: means the prescription monitoring program. See Kansas Statutes 65-1682
  • State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Kansas Statutes 77-201

As used in the utilization of unused medications act:

(a) “Adult care home” has the same meaning as such term is defined in Kan. Stat. Ann. § 39-923, and amendments thereto.

(b) “Community mental health center” has the same meaning as such term is defined in Kan. Stat. Ann. § 39-2002, and amendments thereto.

(c) “Donating entities” means adult care homes, mail service pharmacies, institutional drug rooms and medical care facilities who [that] elect to participate in the program.

(d) “Drug” has the same meaning as such term is defined in Kan. Stat. Ann. § 65-1626, and amendments thereto.

(e) “Federally qualified health center” means a center that meets the requirements for federal funding under 42 U.S.C. § 1396d(1) of the public health service act, and amendments thereto, and that has been designated as a “federally qualified health center” by the federal government.

(f) “Indigent health care clinic” has the same meaning as such term is defined in Kan. Stat. Ann. § 75-6102, and amendments thereto.

(g) “Institutional drug room” has the meaning as such term is defined in Kan. Stat. Ann. § 65-1626, and amendments thereto.

(h) “Mail service pharmacy” means a licensed Kansas pharmacy that ships, mails or delivers by any lawful means a lawfully dispensed medication in tamper-resistant packaging to residents of this state or another state.

(i) “Medical care facility” has the same meaning as such term is defined in Kan. Stat. Ann. § 65-425, and amendments thereto.

(j) “Medically indigent” has the same meaning as such term is defined in Kan. Stat. Ann. § 75-6102, and amendments thereto.

(k) “Medication” means a prescription drug or drug as defined by this section.

(l) “Mid-level practitioner” has the same meaning as such term is defined in Kan. Stat. Ann. § 65-1626, and amendments thereto.

(m) “Practitioner” has the same meaning as such term is defined in Kan. Stat. Ann. § 65-1626, and amendments thereto.

(n) “Prescription drug” means a drug that may be dispensed only upon prescription of a practitioner or mid-level practitioner authorized by law and that is approved for safety and effectiveness as a prescription drug under section 505 or 507 of the federal food, drug and cosmetic act, 52 Stat. 1040 (1938), 21 U.S.C.A. § 301.

(o) “Qualifying center or clinic” means an indigent health care clinic, federally qualified health center or community mental health center.

(p) “Samples of medications or injectables” means a unit of drug that is not intended to be sold and is intended to promote the sale of the drug.