Prescription "For Office Use"

[WagsTale]

I received a prescription today from a physician requesting various medications to be dispensed and sold to his clinic for "Stock". Now to me, this means the exact same as "for office use". And to my knowledge, a prescription cannot be dispensed unless it is for a specific patient. However, my question is: How does a Dr. obtain medications he/she may see fit to prescribe and dispense within their office? If I can't sell the clinic any medications unless it is for a specific patient, is there any way that they may be able to procure medication to dispense to their patients from me? Or are they required to go through some other wholesale ordering channel? I know that I may sell medications to other retail pharmacies under the "casual sale" law, but would a clinic ever fall under this category?

Also, could my pharmacy compound a special cream for this office, provided that it wasn't for a quantity greater than a 90 day supply? Or that the sale of this compound didn't exceed 10 percent of my annual sale of medication?

I played it safe and told the Dr. that I couldn't sell anything to him unless it was prescribed for a specific patient...and of course was met with anger and frustration with him stating "Well I've never had this problem with you guys before!?" 😴

Any help from you all would be very much appreciated!

P.S. I recently quit the horrific world that is Walgreens and have been working in a privately owned retail pharmacy for nearly a month now....and I'm LOVING IT! I just wish that I'd gone that route sooner

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[Farmercyst]

My pharmacy is run by the school of pharmacy and we do POs for a lot of the Dr's offices that dispense in house. Mainly for the Eye clinic across the way. We compound Tobra and Vanc solutions for them. We also supply Diazepam for the Imaging center and a few other offices within the complex. It's filled out in our computer system as a prescription "for office use". Now, we don't sell immunizations to them, and I'm not sure why the difference, but it may be competition as we are an immunizing pharmacy, so Zostavax stays in-house for us. I can't speak to the legality of it as I haven't had pharmacy law yet, I can only say it happens routinely.

 

[type b pharmD]

Illegal for controlleds, other laws vary by state

 

[johnep34]

In UK, Drs get an allowance for items such as dressings used in the surgery. They can also write a 'signed order' for stock items. As we have the NHS and meds etc are free for elderly, many surgeries simply write a script for an aged pt and request pharmacy delivers it to the surgery or requests the pt to take into surgery, eg Zoladex, Implanon, Depo-Medrone, rabies vaccine etc.
johnep

 

[jonniii]

You MAY honour such Rx ONLY IF your pharmacy has wholesaler licenses (both state + fed). If this is not the case, I would call the MD office and suggest that they should contact the drug company or wholesaler like mckesson directly for supplies.

 

[genesis09]

You can sell prescriptions to the physician for office use without a distributer's license, as long as the amount is less than 5% of your total sales.

 

[jonniii]

You can sell prescriptions to the physician for office use without a distributer's license, as long as the amount is less than 5% of your total sales.

you are right, i totally forget about that line.