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Committee hears cleanup bill to let clinician staff hand medications to direct primary care patients
Summary
Sponsors told lawmakers the bill corrects a drafting glitch so clinicians' staff — not just the practitioner — may deliver dispensed medication at direct primary care sites; Montana Medical Association supported the change.
Senator Tom McGillivray presented a cleanup bill to the House Business and Labor Committee to fix an unintended requirement in 2021's direct primary care statute that had forced physicians or physician assistants to physically hand medications to patients.
"There's a little glitch in the legislation," McGillivray said, explaining that the original language required the practitioner personally to deliver dispensed medicines. The bill…
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