2021-2022 PDMP Annual Report

6 Prescription Drug Monitoring Program Annual Report | 2021-22 2016 SB 1604 Created section 893.30, Florida Statutes, establishing the "Victoria Siegel Controlled Substance Safety Education and Awareness Act," requiring the Department to develop a written pamphlet relating to controlled substances, including specific educational information, and make it available to health care practitioners and entities to disseminate and display. The Department shall also encourage consumers to discuss controlled substance abuse risks with their health care providers. 2017 HB 557 Amended section 893.055, Florida Statutes, requiring dispensers of controlled substances in schedules II-IV to report to the Department dispensing information no later than the close of the next business day; clarifies the exemption from reporting of information for a rehabilitative hospital, assisted living facility, or nursing home dispensing a certain dosage of a controlled substance as needed; authorizes access to the database by an employee of the United States Department of Veteran Affairs under certain conditions. 2017 HB 5203 Amended section 893.055, Florida Statutes, authorizing the Department to use state funds appropriated through the General Appropriations Act to fund the PDMP's administration. 2017 HB 7097 Amended section 893.055, Florida Statutes, extending the Direct Support Organization's repeal for the PDMP until October 1, 2027. 2018 HB 21 Amended sections 893.055 and 893.0551, Florida Statutes, requiring mandatory consultation of the PDMP, expanded access by prescribers and dispensers at the US Department of Defense and Indian Health Service; expanded access to Medical Examiners; authorized the exchange of information between states and integration into an EHR. 2019 HB 375 Amended section 893.055, Florida Statutes, defining an electronic health recordkeeping system and authorizes the Department to enter into one or more reciprocal agreements or contracts with the US Department of Veterans Affairs, the US Department of Defense, or the Indian Health Service; and exempts prescribers or dispensers from consulting the PDMP for hospice patients. 2019 HB 1253 Amended sections 893.055 and 893.0551, Florida Statutes, defining an EHR and requiring the Department to assign a unique patient identifier to protect patient identity; expand access to Attorney General for active investigations or pending civil or criminal cases litigation involving prescribed controlled substances. 2019 HB 23 Created 456.47, Florida Statutes, establishing standards of practice for telehealth providers; authorizing certain telehealth providers to use telehealth to prescribe certain controlled substances under specified circumstances; providing registration requirements for out-of-state telehealth providers, etc. A telehealth provider prescribing a controlled substance to a patient in Florida is required to consult the PDMS as required by HB 21 (2018). 2020 HB 5001 Legislature transferred the PDMP budget appropriation of $1,585,478 from General Revenue to the Department of Health, Division of Medical Quality Assurance Trust Fund.