Title: Section 80.77 - Practitioners; control and reporting of official New York State prescription forms and electronic prescribing credentials

80.77 Practitioners; control and reporting of official New York State prescription forms and electronic prescribing credentials.

(a) Adequate safeguards and security measures shall be undertaken by practitioners holding official New York State prescription forms to assure against the loss, destruction, theft or unauthorized use of the forms. Practitioners shall maintain a record of the disposition of all forms, including but not limited to use as a prescription, cancellation, return, loss, destruction, unauthorized use and nonreceipt. The forms may be used only by the practitioner to whom they are issued and are not transferable.
(b) Practitioners shall immediately notify the department, upon forms supplied by the department, of the loss, destruction, theft or unauthorized use of any official New York State prescription forms issued to them, as well as the failure to receive official New York State prescription forms within a reasonable time after ordering them from the department.

(c) Practitioners shall retain sole possession and safeguard credentials used to sign electronic prescriptions for controlled substances and shall not share such credentials with any other person. The practitioner shall not allow any other person to use such credentials to sign prescriptions for controlled substances.

(d) Practitioners shall immediately notify the Bureau of Narcotic Enforcement that his or her credentials used to sign electronic prescriptions for controlled substances have been lost, stolen or compromised.

(e) Practitioners shall immediately notify the Bureau of Narcotic Enforcement upon discovery that one or more prescriptions issued under that practitioner's DEA registration were prescriptions the practitioner had not signed or were not consistent with the prescription the practitioner signed.