California Business and Professions Code

§ 4119.11

BPC § 4119.11 Effective Jan 1, 2024Div. 2 · Ch. 9 · Art. 7

Statute text

(a)A pharmacy located in the state may provide pharmacy services to the patients of a “covered entity,” as defined in Section 256b of Title 42 of the United States Code, through the use of an automated patient dispensing system located on the premises of the covered entity or on the premises of medical professional practices under contract to provide medical services to covered entity patients, which need not be the same location as the pharmacy, if all of the following conditions are met:

(1)The pharmacy obtains a license from the board to operate the automated patient dispensing system at the covered entity or affiliated site. As part of the application, the pharmacy shall provide the address at which the automated patient dispensing system shall be placed and identify the covered entity. A separate license shall be required for each location and shall be renewed annually concurrent with the pharmacy license.

(2)The pharmacy providing the pharmacy services to the patients of the covered entity, including, unless otherwise prohibited by any other law, patients enrolled in the Medi-Cal program, shall be under contract with that covered entity as described in Section 4126 to provide those pharmacy services through the use of the automated patient dispensing system.

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Legislative history

Repealed (in Sec. 6) and added by Stats. 2023, Ch. 723, Sec. 7. (SB 816) Effective January 1, 2024. Operative January 1, 2025, by its own provisions.