All Drugs and Medicines Legislation - Kentucky

Create new sections of KRS Chapter 216B to define terms; state legislative findings about acquired infections and increasing prevalence in health care settings, the costs to treat patients with acquired infections, and that infections are preventable; require health care facilities to implement infection prevention programs in high risk areas and throughout the facility by January 1, 2009; require implementation of best practices that include identification of infected patients, contact precautions, cultures upon discharge or transfer, hand washing, written infection prevention and control policy, public posting of policies, and worker and staff education programs; require health facilities to report data on health-facility acquired infection rates and multi-drug resistant infections; require cabinet to include data on acquired infections in its dissemination of information under KRS 216.2921; permit the cabinet to promulgate administrative regulations; require report to Governor and Legislative [...]

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Amend KRS 311.856 to delete the prohibition against physician assistants prescribing controlled substances; amend KRS 311.858 to allow physician assistants to prescribe Schedules II through V controlled substances if delegated to do so by their supervising physicians; require that prescriptions for Schedule II controlled substances be limited to a 72-hour supply with no refills; require that prescriptions for Schedule III controlled substances be limited to a 30-day supply with no refills; require that prescriptions for Schedules IV and V controlled substances be limited to the original prescription and refills not to exceed a six month supply; require the Kentucky Board of Medical Licensure, on the recommendations of the Physician Assistant Advisory Committee, to limit the prescribing of specific controlled substances that have been identified as having the greatest potential for abuse and diversion; establish eligibility requirements for physician assistants who are given prescriptive [...]

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Create new sections of KRS Chapter 194A to define "asset test," "department," "enrollee," "federal poverty guidelines," "liquid assets," "Medicaid dual eligible," "Medicare Modernization Act," "Medicare Part D prescription drug benefit," "prescription drug plan", "program," and "resident"; create the Kentucky Senior Prescription Drug Assistance Program within the Department for Aging and Independent Living; establish eligibility guidelines for participants to include persons who are 65 or older, eligible for Medicare enrollment, have a household income at or below 200 percent of the poverty level, meet the asset test, do not have other prescription drug coverage, and not be members of a retirement plan with a drug benefit under the Medicare Modernization Act, and not Medicaid dual eligible; require the department to prescribe the application and enrollment process; allow the department to determine drugs to be covered by the program and negotiate with manufacturers for rebates; limit benefits [...]

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Create new sections of KRS Chapter 315 to define terms, including "authorized distributor of record," "counterfeit prescription drug," "drop shipment," "exclusive distributor," "normal distribution channel," "pedigree," "third party logistics provider," and "wholesale distributor"; require a wholesale distributor to be licensed by the board; specify conditions for a wholesale distributor to receive prescription drugs and require a manufacturer or a wholesale distributor to supply drugs only to a person licensed to possess or distribute drugs to an end user; require any wholesale distributor to provide a pedigree if the drugs were outside of the normal distribution channel and permit the Board of Pharmacy to specify the required contents of a pedigree; prohibit the board from requiring the use of an electronic track and trace system for pedigrees until the federal government establishes standard technology; require the board to promulgate administrative regulations to implement requirements [...]

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Create new sections of KRS 217 to require the Governor, in coordination with the secretary of the Cabinet for Health Services, to request that the Secretary of the United States Department of Health and Human Services certify to Congress that drug importation from foreign countries by Kentucky licensed pharmacists, distributors, and wholesalers poses no additional risk to the public's health and safety and would result in a reduction in prescription drug costs; require the Governor and the secretary of the Cabinet for Health Services to request that the secretary of the Department for Health and Human Services promulgate administrative regulations permitting pharmacists, distributors, and wholesalers to import drugs from foreign countries; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to design a prescription drug program to facilitate the importation of prescription drugs from foreign countries by pharmacists, distributors, and wholesalers licensed in Kentucky once federal regulations [...]

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