Gov. Bill Haslam has quietly signed into law a bill that eliminates a Tennessee requirement that pharmacists have a patient-specific prescription before dispensing a specially compounded drug.
The measure, which was backed by the Tennessee Pharmacists Association and sponsored by two legislators who are licensed pharmacists, comes in the wake of a nationwide fungal meningitis outbreak blamed on a Massachusetts drug compounding firm.
Alexia Poe, spokeswoman for the governor, said state Health Department officials worked with legislators to put in safeguards to ensure patient safety
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Those provisions include a requirement that pharmacists doing compounding filequarterly reports with the state on the volume of compounded drugs they are producing. That reporting requirement, however, does not apply to hospital pharmacies.
quarterly reports with the state on the volume of compounded drugs they are producing. That reporting requirement, however, does not apply to hospital pharmacies.
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