Tenn. Comp. R. & Regs. 0940-05-42-.16 - PHARMACOTHERAPY GUIDELINES

(1) The Facility shall develop pharmacotherapy guidelines for opioid replacement treatment for service recipients covering the Facility's own prescribing and review of prescriptions from other physicians. These shall minimally include:

(a) Procedures to ensure that service recipients' prescriptions from outside physicians will be reported to the medical staff and reviewed by the program physician at admission and annually thereafter;

(b) Procedures describing the Facility's response when information about prescriptions from outside physicians is not reported including, but not limited to, the loss of take-home privileges, to ensure compliance with this rule; and

(c) If a Facility is unable to acquire information about a service recipient's prescriptions, the Facility shall document efforts made to obtain information about prescriptions from outside physicians in the service recipient's record.

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Tenn. Comp. R. & Regs. 0940-05-42-.16

Original rule filed September 20, 2012; effective December 19, 2012.

Authority: T.C.A. §§ 4-3-1601, 4-4-103, 33-1-302, 33-1-305, 33-1-309, 33-2-302, and 33-2-404.