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Board of Pharmacy proposes K‑TRACS changes: prison reporting exemption and broader delegate access draw committee concern
Summary
The Kansas Board of Pharmacy proposed exempting pharmacies that supply correctional facilities from reporting short, controlled‑substance supplies to the K‑TRACS database and expanding delegate access to include licensed addiction counselors. Lawmakers raised privacy, oversight and diversion concerns and asked for legal and procedural detail.
The Kansas Board of Pharmacy told the Joint Committee on Administrative Rules and Regulations it will amend K.A.R. 68‑21‑2 to add an exemption from K‑TRACS reporting for pharmacies that dispense controlled drugs to correctional institutions and will adopt a new regulation (K.A.R. 68‑21‑8) to expand who may be a delegate with access to the K‑TRACS prescription drug monitoring system.
Bradford DeYoung explained the reporting exemption would relieve pharmacies that dispense to correctional institutions from routine K‑TRACS reporting for short, institutional supplies, on the board’s view that risk of diversion and doctor‑shopping is very low for those institutional administrations. "The drugs dispensed to a correctional institution are tightly controlled by the correctional institution, and the risk of diversion is incredibly low," DeYoung said. He added the proposed change was…
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