Legislative Successes
Our PAC and legislators work diligently to help provide the legislative successes shown below.
Year |
Bills |
|---|---|
| 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 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 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 PL 119 and 174 - Permitted pharmacies to accept the return of certain medications dispensed to patients |
| 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 154 - Expanded Medicaid to include coverage for pharmacist services 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 |
| 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 |
SB 51 - 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 |