Bottom line: Your pharmacy should be able to accept electronic scripts. If you still receive „traditional” handwritten/faxed/telephone recipes, you can continue to fill them out as long as these recipes are consistent with all other aspects. As you can see, there are many exceptions and some of them are very broad. The good news is that the pharmacy does not have to check whether a written, oral or faxed prescription meets the stated exceptions. Compliance in this regard is the responsibility of the prescribing physician. However, the pharmacy must immediately notify the prescribing physician if electronic data transmission fails, is incomplete or is not received correctly. 5. The order sent by fax shall contain the following additional information: B. Schedule II drug prescriptions may be faxed for informational purposes only and may not be used as an original written prescription for delivery, except for prescriptions to be administered to long-term care facilities and home infusion patients pursuant to Virginia Code Section 54.1-3408.01 B, and excluding prescriptions for a Schedule II narcotic substance for patients. who live in a Medicare certified hospice under Title XVIII or by the state which may include home hospice. The prescribing physician must indicate on the prescription whether the patient is a palliative care patient, and the prescription must meet all written prescription requirements, including the manual signature of the prescribing physician.

b. the sending of an oral order by a mandatary under the conditions provided for in subsection 3 of this subdivision; or Certain exceptions apply. A prescribing physician may still issue a paper prescription or do so by fax or pharmacy call if: 2. A valid prescription by fax must contain all the information required for a prescription. The written prescription bears the signature of the prescribing physician. In short, the new law requires California prescribers to submit electronic prescriptions (instead of paper/fax/oral scripts) and pharmacies to be able to receive these transfers. c. if applicable, the place of business from which the order was faxed, including address, telephone number and facsimile number. C.

If the faxed prescription is of such quality that the print fades and remains illegible for the prescribed retention period, the receiving pharmacist copies or transcribes the faxed prescription onto durable quality paper. R. Unless otherwise prohibited by federal law, prescriptions for drugs listed in Schedules III to VI may be faxed to pharmacies under the following conditions: c. Transmission of a written prescription by an authorized representative of a long-term care facility, provided that the provider pharmacy maintains written procedures for such transactions and that the original prescription is issued by the pharmacy within seven days of delivery by the provider pharmacy is obtained. The original of the order must be attached to the copy by fax. (1) The prescription shall be sent only by fax to the pharmacy of the person`s choice. 3. An agent within the meaning of § 54.1-3408.01 C of the Virginia Code may fax an oral order and must indicate on the faxed order the full name and text of the representative, which clearly indicates that the order transmitted is an oral order. 4. A prescription sent by facsimile is valid only if it is sent by fax from the office of the prescribing physician, except in the following cases: a.

the transmission of an order by fax card from a long-term care facility or hospice, including a hospice at home; From VR530-01-1 § 6.2, entered into force on October 25, 1989; amended, Virginia Register Volume 9, Issue 4, eff. 16 December 1992; Volume 10, Number 1, p. November 4, 1993; Volume 11, Number 21, p. August 9, 1995; Volume 12, Number 21, p. August 7, 1996; Volume 15, Number 8, eff. February 3, 1999; Band 18, Heft 12, eff. 27. March 2002; Volume 20, Number 23, p. 25 August 2004; Volume 25, Number 24, entered into force 2 September 2009; Volume 36, Number 6, effective December 11, 2019.

§§ 54.1-2400 and 54.1-3307 of the Virginia Code. D. Renewal authorizations may be faxed to the pharmacy by the prescribing physician, provided that the authorization includes the patient`s name, address, name and strength of the drug, quantity, directions for use, name of prescribing physician, manual signature of prescribing physician or name of agent and date of authorization. b. name, address, telephone number and facsimile number of the authorized prescribing physician; and.