ALABAMA BOARD OF PHARMACY

Donna C. Yeatman, R.Ph.

Executive Secretary

Location:

111 Village Street

Birmingham, AL 35242

(205) 981-2280

(205) 981-2330 Fax

www.albop.com

MEMBERS 2020

Ralph Sorrell, R.Ph.

President

Brenda Denson, PharmD

Vice President

Chris Phung, R.Ph.

Treasurer

Robert Colburn, Jr., R.Ph.

Christy Garmon, PharmD

March 14, 2020

To: Emergency Refills for Maintenance Medications

From: Alabama Board of Pharmacy/Donna C. Yeatman, RPh

Date: March 14, 2020

RE: Coronavirus (COVID-19)

Effective March 14, 2020 and terminating March 31, 2020, the Alabama Board of Pharmacy will authorize pharmacists to process emergency prescription refills for a 30-day supply of maintenance medications under the following requirements:

1) The pharmacist is unable to readily obtain refill authorization from the prescriber.

2) The original prescription is maintained in the dispensing pharmacy's files.

3) The prescription is not a medicinal agent listed in Schedule II.

4) The medication is essential to the maintenance of life or the continuation of therapy in a chronic condition.

5) The dispensing pharmacist creates a written prescription order containing all of the prescription information required by federal and state statutes, rules and regulations.

6) The dispensing pharmacist notifies the prescriber orally or in writing of the emergency dispensing within seventy-two (72) hours after such dispensing.