Terms Used In Kansas Statutes 65-1683

  • Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
  • Bequest: Property gifted by will.
  • Board: means the state board of pharmacy. See Kansas Statutes 65-1682
  • Dispenser: means a practitioner, pharmacy or pharmacist who delivers a scheduled substance or drug of concern to an ultimate user, but does not include:

    (1) A licensed hospital pharmacy that distributes such substances for the purpose of inpatient hospital care;

    (2) a medical care facility as defined in Kan. See Kansas Statutes 65-1682

  • Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
  • Patient: means the individual who is the ultimate user of a drug for whom a prescription is issued or for whom a drug is dispensed. 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

(a) The board shall establish and maintain a prescription monitoring program for the monitoring of scheduled substances and drugs of concern dispensed in this state or dispensed to an address in this state.

(b) Each dispenser shall submit to the board by electronic means information required by the board regarding each prescription dispensed for a substance included under subsection (a). The board shall promulgate rules and regulations specifying the nationally recognized telecommunications format to be used for submission of information that each dispenser shall submit to the board. Such information may include, but not be limited to:

(1) The dispenser identification number;

(2) the date the prescription is filled;

(3) the prescription number;

(4) whether the prescription is new or is a refill;

(5) the national drug code for the drug dispensed;

(6) the quantity dispensed;

(7) the number of days’ supply of the drug;

(8) the patient identification number;

(9) the patient’s name;

(10) the patient’s address;

(11) the patient’s date of birth;

(12) the prescriber identification number;

(13) the date the prescription was issued by the prescriber;

(14) the source of payment for the prescription;

(15) the diagnosis code;

(16) the patient’s species code; and

(17) the date the prescription was sold.

(c) The board shall promulgate rules and regulations specifying the transmission methods and frequency of the dispenser submissions required under subsection (b).

(d) The board may, in consultation with the advisory committee, enable features and include additional information to enhance the program database. Such information may include, but not be limited to:

(1) The date or fact of death;

(2) the dispensation or administration of emergency opioid antagonists, as defined by Kan. Stat. Ann. § 65-16,127, and amendments thereto; and

(3) the data related to an overdose event.

(e) The board is hereby authorized to apply for and to accept grants and may accept any donation, gift or bequest made to the board for furthering any phase of the prescription monitoring program.

(f) The board shall remit all moneys received by it under subsection (e) to the state treasurer in accordance with the provisions of Kan. Stat. Ann. § 75-4215, and amendments thereto. Upon receipt of such remittance, the state treasurer shall deposit the entire amount in the state treasury to the credit of the non-federal gifts and grants fund. All expenditures from such fund shall be made in accordance with appropriation acts upon warrants of the director of accounts and reports issued pursuant to vouchers approved by the president of the board or a person designated by the president.