Terms Used In Montana Code > Title 37 > Chapter 7 > Part 14 - Donated Drugs and Devices Program

• Board: means the board of pharmacy provided for in 2-15-1733. See Montana Code 37-7-101
• Cancer drug: means a prescription drug used to treat:

  (a)cancer or its side effects; or

  (b)the side effects of a prescription drug used to treat cancer or its side effects. See Montana Code 37-7-101

• Compounding: means the preparation, mixing, assembling, packaging, or labeling of a drug or device based on:

  (a)a practitioner's prescription drug order;

  (b)a professional practice relationship between a practitioner, pharmacist, and patient;

  (c)research, instruction, or chemical analysis, but not for sale or dispensing; or

  (d)the preparation of drugs or devices based on routine, regularly observed prescribing patterns. See Montana Code 37-7-101

• Controlled substance: means a substance designated in Schedules II through V of Title 50, chapter 32, part 2. See Montana Code 37-7-101
• Department: means the department of labor and industry provided for in Title 2, chapter 15, part 17. See Montana Code 37-7-101
• dispensing: means the interpretation, evaluation, and implementation of a prescription drug order, including the preparation and delivery of a drug or device to a patient or patient's agent in a suitable container appropriately labeled for administration to or use by a patient. See Montana Code 37-7-101
• distribution: means the sale, purchase, trade, delivery, handling, storage, or receipt of a drug or device and does not include administering or dispensing a prescription drug, pursuant to section 353(b)(1), or a new animal drug, pursuant to section 360b(b) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, 21 U. See Montana Code 37-7-101
• Drug: means a substance:

  (a)recognized as a drug in any official compendium or supplement;

  (b)intended for use in diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease in humans or animals;

  (c)other than food, intended to affect the structure or function of the body of humans or animals; and

  (d)intended for use as a component of a substance specified in subsection (16)(a), (16)(b), or (16)(c). See Montana Code 37-7-101

• Health care facility: has the meaning provided in 50-5-101. See Montana Code 37-7-101
• Health clinic: means a facility in which advice, counseling, diagnosis, treatment, surgery, care, or services relating to preserving or maintaining health are provided on an outpatient basis for a period of less than 24 consecutive hours to a person not residing at or confined to the facility. See Montana Code 37-7-101
• Hospital: has the meaning provided in 50-5-101. See Montana Code 37-7-101
• Long-term care facility: has the meaning provided in 50-5-101. See Montana Code 37-7-101
• Participant: means a physician's office, pharmacy, hospital, or health clinic that has elected to voluntarily participate in the cancer drug repository program provided for in 37-7-1403 and that accepts donated cancer drugs or devices under rules adopted by the board. See Montana Code 37-7-101
• Person: includes an individual, partnership, corporation, association, or other legal entity. See Montana Code 37-7-101
• Pharmacy: means an established location, either physical or electronic, registered by the board where drugs or devices are dispensed with pharmaceutical care or where pharmaceutical care is provided. See Montana Code 37-7-101
• Property: means real and personal property. See Montana Code 1-1-205
• Provisional community pharmacy: means a pharmacy that has been approved by the board, including but not limited to federally qualified health centers, as defined in 42 C. See Montana Code 37-7-101
• Qualified patient: means a person who is uninsured, indigent, or has insufficient funds to obtain needed prescription drugs or cancer drugs. See Montana Code 37-7-101
• Registry: means the prescription drug registry provided for in 37-7-1502. See Montana Code 37-7-101
• State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Montana Code 1-1-201