§328B-1 - Definitions.
[§328B-1] Definitions. For the purposes of this chapter:
"Institutional facility" means an organization or facility whose primary purpose is to provide a physical environment for patients to obtain health care services or at-home care services, and that uses the services of an on-site pharmacy, an off-site pharmacy, or a pharmacist contractor at which medication storage is managed by personnel of the facility. "Institutional facility" includes but is not limited to a:
(1) Hospital;
(2) Convalescent home;
(3) Skilled nursing facility;
(4) Intermediate care facility;
(5) Extended care facility;
(6) Rehabilitation center;
(7) Health maintenance organization clinic;
(8) Psychiatric center;
(9) Mental retardation center;
(10) Penal institution;
(11) Hospice facility;
(12) Supervised living group; or
(13) Prescribing practitioner's office.
"Pharmacy" means a place of business operating as a pharmacy as permitted under chapter 461.
"Return-for-credit-and-reuse" as it pertains to prescription drugs means the process by which prescription drugs dispensed by the dispensing pharmacy of an institutional facility are safely returned to that pharmacy and redispensed for purposes of patient or resident care, or both, which process includes the appropriate crediting of the cost of returned drugs to the payer, less handling fees to providers where applicable, recordkeeping, and the return of the drugs to pharmacy stock for redispensing. [L 2004, c 190, pt of §2]