Legislative Successes

Click here to donate to IPA's Political Action Committee.

Year	Public Laws
1996	PL 114 - Pharmacists permitted to establish Collaborative Drug Therapy Management protocols with hospitals
1997	PL 183 - Mail order pharmacy regulated in Indiana PL 190 - Pharmacists can provide and receive reimbursement for diabetes self-management training
1999	PL 187 - First major update to Pharmacy Practice Act in over 100 years modernizing laws to allow pharmacists to utilize skills learned in pharmacy school PL 231 - Mail order and internet pharmacy definition added to Indiana Code
2002	PL 1 - Pharmacists permitted to fill emergency refills without prescriptions
2003	PL 251 - Established oversight of Pharmacy Technicians by Board of Pharmacy; Prevented health insurance plans from mandating mail order pharmacy
2004	PL 75 - Expanded drug therapy management to health care facilities (nursing homes)
2005	PL 122 - Licensed home medical equipment suppliers and designated licensed pharmacists as home medical equipment suppliers PL 204 - Permitted electronic prescribing for first time in Indiana PL 212 - Permitted pharmacists to return expired medications to wholesalers
2006	PL 98 - Regulated pharmacy interns; Permitted Governor to declare health emergency to permit pharmacists to get needed medications to persons regardless of statutory restrictions
2007	PL 94 - Permitted Pharmacist -Administered Immunizations for Influenza by protocol
2008	PL 7 - Regulated pharmacy audits for the first time in Indiana
2011	PL 119 and 174 - Permitted pharmacies to accept the return of certain medications dispensed to patients PL 197 - Expanded pharmacist Collaborative Drug Therapy Management protocol to include protocols with physicians in any practice setting, including community pharmacies; Added shingles as the second immunization that could be administered by protocol
2012	PL 152 - Telepharmacy permitted under Pharmacy Board Regulation PL 159 - Pharmacists permitted to supervise 6 pharmacy technicians rather than 4; Pharmacists permitted to dispense a 90 day supply of certain medications
2013	PL 113 - Expanded pharmacist administered immunizations to include Tetanus, Diphtheria, Tdap, HPV, Pneumonia and Meningitis; permitted pharmacy interns to administer immunizations
2014	PL 58 - Licensed pharmacy technicians and modernized the qualifications and requirements to be licensed
2015	PL 89 - Added Medication Therapy Management definition to provide foundation for payers to pay for MTM services; Permitted physician assistants and nurse practitioners to supervise pharmacists providing drug therapy management services PL 154 - Expanded Medicaid to include coverage for pharmacist services
2016	PL 4 and 5 - Made pharmacists gatekeepers in deciding which pseudoephedrine products to sell to customers to attempt to reduce the problem with methamphetamine labs in Indiana
2017	PL 45 - Requires health plans to accept and respond to electronic prior authorizations to save pharmacists and patients time. PL 96 - Pharmacists will be able to administer 12 immunizations with addition of 5 vaccines: measles, mumps and rubella; varicella; hepatitis A and B; and haemophilus influenza type B PL 117 - Adds albuterol and naloxone to the list of emergency medications that schools can fill and store, while also ensuring 12-month expiration dating on injectable epinephrine PL 182 - Combats opioid abuse by allowing partial filling of opioid prescriptions PL 202 - Pharmacy Modernization & Protection - Stiffens penalties for pharmacy robberies; permits State Health Commissioner to authorize standing order for pharmacists to prescribe and dispense smoking cessation products; defines telepharmacy; optimizes medication synchronization and modernizes Board of Pharmacy eligibility and notification requirements
2018	PL 209 - Health matters, PBM transparency
2019	PL 28 - Transfer of prescription drugs PL 246 - Pharmacy matters - ephedrine PL 247 - Pharmacy matters - medical devices
2020	PL 68 - Pharmacy Benefit Mangers: Requires PBMs to be contracted to operate in Indiana and must disclose certain information. PL 10 - Insulin Drugs: Select insulin products will now be available over-the-counter

IPA would like to sincerely thank all of our generous IPA PAC supporters and IPA members, who take the personal initiative to voluntarily support IPA PAC, and play a key role in ensuring that our voices are heard.

Legislative Successes

Year

Public Laws

IPA would like to sincerely thank all of our generous IPA PAC supporters and IPA members, who take the personal initiative to voluntarily support IPA PAC, and play a key role in ensuring that our voices are heard.