124.554 - RULES AND REPORTING.

        124.554  RULES AND REPORTING.
         1.  The board and advisory council shall jointly adopt rules in
      accordance with chapter 17A to carry out the purposes of, and to
      enforce the provisions of, this division.  The rules shall include
      but not be limited to the development of procedures relating to:
         a.  Identifying each patient about whom information is entered
      into the program.
         b.  An electronic format for the submission of information
      from pharmacies.
         c.  A waiver to submit information in another format for a
      pharmacy unable to submit information electronically.
         d.  An application by a pharmacy for an extension of time for
      transmitting information to the program.
         e.  The submission by an authorized requestor of a request for
      information and a procedure for the verification of the identity of
      the requestor.
         f.  Use by the board or advisory council of the program
      request records required by section 124.553, subsection 2, to
      document and report statistical information.
         g.  Including all schedule II controlled substances and those
      substances in schedules III and IV that the advisory council and
      board determine can be addictive or fatal if not taken under the
      proper care and direction of a prescribing practitioner.
         h.  Access by a pharmacist or prescribing practitioner to
      information in the program pursuant to a written agreement with the
      board and advisory council.
         i.  The correction or deletion of erroneous information in the
      program.
         2.  Beginning January 1, 2007, and annually by January 1
      thereafter, the board and advisory council shall present to the
      general assembly and the governor a report prepared consistent with
      section 124.555, subsection 3, paragraph "d", which shall include
      but not be limited to the following:
         a.  The cost to the state of implementing and maintaining the
      program.
         b.  Information from pharmacies, prescribing practitioners,
      the board, the advisory council, and others regarding the benefits or
      detriments of the program.
         c.  Information from pharmacies, prescribing practitioners,
      the board, the advisory council, and others regarding the board's
      effectiveness in providing information from the program.  
         Section History: Recent Form
         2006 Acts, ch 1147, §5, 11; 2007 Acts, ch 126, §29, 30
         Referred to in § 124.551, 124.552, 124.553, 124.555, 124.556 
         Footnotes
         For future repeal of this section effective June 30, 2011, see
      2009 Acts, ch 36, § 3