139A.41 - CHLAMYDIA AND GONORRHEA TREATMENT.

        139A.41  CHLAMYDIA AND GONORRHEA TREATMENT.
         Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, a
      physician, physician assistant, or advanced registered nurse
      practitioner who diagnoses a sexually transmitted chlamydia or
      gonorrhea infection in an individual patient may prescribe, dispense,
      furnish, or otherwise provide prescription oral antibiotic drugs to
      that patient's sexual partner or partners without examination of that
      patient's partner or partners.  If the infected individual patient is
      unwilling or unable to deliver such prescription drugs to a sexual
      partner or partners, a physician, physician assistant, or advanced
      registered nurse practitioner may dispense, furnish, or otherwise
      provide the prescription drugs to the department or local disease
      prevention investigation staff for delivery to the partner or
      partners.  
         Section History: Recent Form
         2008 Acts, ch 1058, §12