N.M. Admin. Code § 16.22.25.9 - PEER REVIEW

A. Panel membership. The applicant for a prescription certificate shall successfully complete a process of independent peer review that meets the requirements set forth below before the board shall issue a prescription certificate.

(1) One or more peer review panel(s) shall be appointed by the chair of the board. Peer review panels shall consist of three (3) members from at least two (2) of the following professions and categories:

(a) conditional prescribing psychologists, prescribing psychologists or licensed psychologists with specialized training and experience in psychopharmacology;

(b) licensed, board-certified psychiatrists, other physicians, nurse practitioners or physician assistants with specialized training and experience in psychopharmacology;

(c) doctoral level licensed pharmacists or pharmacist clinicians with specialized training and experience in psychopharmacology.

(2) A panel member shall not be a member of the applicant's family or household, shall not be in a prohibited dual relationship with the applicant or a member of the applicant's family or household, shall not have supervised the applicant, and shall not have a conflict of interest as defined in 16.22.1 NMAC, of these regulations.

(3) No panel member may be a psychologist enrolled in a psychopharmacology training program.

B. Review process.

(1) A panel shall examine at least ten (10) randomly selected charts of patients treated by the conditional prescribing psychologist during the two-year supervised period and any approved extensions. The applicant shall be solely responsible for obtaining the patient charts for peer review. The charts shall be reviewed to determine whether the following information is timely, accurately, and properly recorded:

(a) a full medical history and family history;

(b) a mental status examination and complete differential diagnosis of the patient by the conditional prescribing psychologist;

(c) risk factors for the diagnostic condition were identified, including absence of drug, alcohol, suicide and homicide;

(d) drug and food allergies;

(e) patient medications;

(f) patient education on prescription, including evidence of informed consent to treatment;

(g) appropriate laboratory tests ordered and reviewed;

(h) the patient's diagnosis;

(i) adequate dosing requirements for prescription;

(j) treatment, including psychopharmacotherapy and psychotherapy, adverse affects from prescriptions, documentation of outcome measures for prescriptions;

(k) progress notes;

(l) a follow-up plan, including a discharge plan, and

(m) documentation of collaboration with the patient's treating health care practitioner as required pursuant to 16.22.20 NMAC, of these regulations;

(2) The peer review panel shall complete an evaluation form approved by the psychopharmacology application committee, which shall certify whether the charts reviewed are in compliance and are satisfactory, and shall forward the evaluation form to the board.

Notes

N.M. Admin. Code § 16.22.25.9

16.22.25.9 NMAC - Rp, 16.22.25.8 NMAC, 11/15/06