{"id":"AGY-ST-HEALTH-BOARDS-017","kind":"order","level":"sector-regulator","jurisdiction":"Texas State Board of Pharmacy; State level","state":"TX","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"ST-HEALTH-BOARDS","eco":"","issuer":"Texas State Board of Pharmacy","authority":"Tex. Occ. Code ch. 554; Emergency Board Rule 291.30","instrument":"TSBP Guidance Statements re: COVID-19 (Issued May 15, 2020)","title":"Guidance Statements re: COVID-19: dispensing in compliance with Emergency Board Rule 291.30 (hydroxychloroquine); diagnosis verification; off-label use","dateIssued":"2020-05-15","effective":"2020-05-15","end":"Tied to the life of Emergency Rule 291.30","startDate":"2020-05-15","endDate":"2020-09-30","quarters":["2020Q2","2020Q3"],"types":["SUPPLY","HC"],"addressees":["Texas pharmacists and pharmacies","prescribers"],"clause":"In addition, the Texas State Board of Pharmacy has issued the following guidance with regard to dispensing drugs in compliance with Emergency Board Rule 291.30: The rule does not prevent a physician from prescribing one of these drugs for an off-label use.... Pharmacists have a corresponding responsibility and use professional judgement when dispensing a prescription. Obtaining the diagnosis from the prescriber when dispensing a prescription by the pharmacist is not a violation of HIPAA.","enforcement":"Tex. Occ. Code §§ 565.001-.002; § 566.001","functions":["SC dispensing (diagnosis verification step compelled by rule)","CB prescribers and patients"],"notes":"Confirms the emergency rule remained the operative constraint on dispensing in the second quarter of 2020","sourceUrl":"https://www.pharmacy.texas.gov/files_pdf/TSBP-COVID-statement.pdf","snapshot":"","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":98080,"grade":"primary","character":"","description":"","collection":"AGY-ST-HEALTH-BOARDS","url":"/library/AGY-ST-HEALTH-BOARDS-017","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/AGY-ST-HEALTH-BOARDS-017","citation":"Texas State Board of Pharmacy, TSBP Guidance Statements re: COVID-19 (Issued May 15, 2020) (Ex. AGY-ST-HEALTH-BOARDS-017)","stateName":"Texas","related":["AGY-ST-HEALTH-BOARDS-018","AGY-ST-HEALTH-BOARDS-019"]}