§ 3343-a. Prescription monitoring program registry. 1. Establishment\nof system. (a) The commissioner shall, in accordance with the provisions\nof this section, establish and maintain an electronic system for\ncollecting, monitoring and reporting information concerning the\nprescribing and dispensing of controlled substances, to be known as the\nprescription monitoring program registry. The registry shall include\ninformation reported by pharmacies on a real time basis, as set forth in\nsubdivision four of section thirty-three hundred thirty-three of this\narticle.\n (b) The registry shall include, for each person to whom a prescription\nfor controlled substances has been dispensed, all patient-specific\ninformation covering such period of time as is deemed appropriate and\nfeasible by the commissioner, but no less than six months and no more\nthan five years. Such patient-specific information shall be obtained\nfrom the prescription information reported by pharmacies pursuant to\nsubdivision four of section thirty-three hundred thirty-three of this\narticle and by practitioners who dispense pursuant to subdivision six of\nsection thirty-three hundred thirty-one of this article, and shall be\nprocessed and included in the registry by the department without undue\ndelay. For purposes of this article, "patient-specific information"\nmeans information pertaining to individual patients included in the\nregistry, which shall include the following information and such other\ninformation as is required by the department in regulation:\n (i) the patient's name;\n (ii) the patient's residential address;\n (iii) the patient's date of birth;\n (iv) the patient's gender;\n (v) the date on which the prescription was issued;\n (vi) the date on which the controlled substance was dispensed;\n (vii) the metric quantity of the controlled substance dispensed;\n (viii) the number of days supply of the controlled substance\ndispensed;\n (ix) the name of the prescriber;\n (x) the prescriber's identification number, as assigned by the drug\nenforcement administration;\n (xi) the name or identifier of the drug that was dispensed; and\n (xii) the payment method.\n (c) The registry shall be secure, easily accessible by practitioners\nand pharmacists, and compatible with the electronic transmission of\nprescriptions for controlled substances, as required by section two\nhundred eighty-one of this chapter, and section sixty-eight hundred ten\nof the education law, and any regulations promulgated pursuant thereto.\nTo the extent practicable, implementation of the electronic transmission\nof prescriptions for controlled substances shall serve to streamline\nconsultation of the registry by practitioners and reporting of\nprescription information by pharmacists. The registry shall be\ninteroperable with other similar registries operated by federal or state\ngovernments, to the extent deemed appropriate by the commissioner, and\nsubject to the provisions of section thirty-three hundred seventy-one-a\nof this article.\n (d) The department shall establish and implement such protocols as are\nreasonably necessary to ensure that information contained in the\nregistry is maintained in a secure and confidential manner and is\naccessible only by practitioners, pharmacists or their designees for the\npurposes established in subdivisions two and three of this section, or\nas otherwise set forth in sections thirty-three hundred seventy-one and\nthirty-three hundred seventy-one-a of this article. Such protocols shall\ninclude a mechanism for the department to monitor and record access to\nthe registry, which shall identify the authorized individual accessing\nand each controlled substance history accessed.\n 2. Duty to consult prescription monitoring program registry;\npractitioners. (a) Every practitioner shall consult the prescription\nmonitoring program registry prior to prescribing or dispensing any\ncontrolled substance listed on schedule II, III or
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