Section 3. Prescribing practices.
(a) Limitation on quantity of opioid drug products.--
(1) Except as set forth in paragraph (2), a health care
practitioner may not prescribe an opioid drug product to an
individual seeking treatment in an emergency department or
urgent care center, OR WHO IS IN OBSERVATION STATUS IN A
HOSPITAL, in a quantity sufficient to treat that individual
for more than seven days.
(2) Notwithstanding paragraph (1), if, in the
professional medical judgment of a health care practitioner,
more than a seven-day supply of an opioid drug product is
required to treat a patient's acute medical condition or is
necessary for the treatment of pain associated with a cancer
diagnosis or for palliative care, then the health care
practitioner may issue a prescription for the quantity needed
to treat such acute medical condition or pain associated with
a cancer diagnosis or for palliative care. The condition
triggering prescription of the opioid drug product under this
paragraph shall be documented in the patient's medical
record, and the health care practitioner must indicate that a
non-opioid drug product alternative was not appropriate to
treat the medical condition and that the health care
practitioner provided the patient with a pain management
referral.
(b) Refills.--A health care practitioner in an emergency
department or urgent care center may not authorize the refilling
of a prescription for an opioid drug product that has been lost,
stolen or destroyed., OR WHO IS CARING FOR A PATIENT IN
OBSERVATION STATUS, MAY NOT WRITE A PRESCRIPTION REFILL FOR AN
OPIOID DRUG PRODUCT.
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