LRB-1404/1
CTS:wlj&jld:rs
2011 - 2012 LEGISLATURE
DOA:......Dombrowski, BB0346 - Substitution of drug equivalents at skilled nursing facilities
For 2011-13 Budget -- Not Ready For Introduction
An Act ...; relating to: the budget.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
state government
Other state government
Current law defines the practice of pharmacy to include making therapeutic alternate drug selections, if made in accordance with written guidelines or procedures established by a hospital's pharmacy and therapeutics committee and approved by the hospital's medical staff and approved for a patient by the patient's physician or advanced practice nurse prescriber.
Under the bill, therapeutic alternate drug selections must be made in accordance with guidelines or procedures established by a hospital's pharmacy and therapeutics committee or by a skilled nursing facility or an intermediate care facility for persons with mental retardation. The bill deletes the requirement that guidelines or procedures established by a hospital's pharmacy and therapeutics committee be approved by the hospital's medical staff and approved for a patient by the patient's physician or advanced practice nurse prescriber.
For further information see the state and local fiscal estimate, which will be printed as an appendix to this bill.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
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1. 450.01 (16) (h) (intro.) of the statutes is renumbered 450.01 (16) (h) and amended to read:
450.01 (16) (h) Making therapeutic alternate drug selections, if made in accordance with written guidelines or procedures previously established by a pharmacy and therapeutics committee of a hospital and approved by the hospital's medical staff and use of the therapeutic alternate drug selection has been approved for a patient during the period of the patient's stay within the hospital by any of the following: or by a skilled nursing facility or by an intermediate care facility for persons with mental retardation, as defined in s. 46.278 (1m) (am).
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2. 450.01 (16) (h) 1. of the statutes is repealed.
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3. 450.01 (16) (h) 2. of the statutes is repealed.
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