Section 1 Short title
This Act may be cited as the “Reducing Unused Medications Act of 2016”.
Reducing Unused Medications Act of 2016
A BILL
To amend the Controlled Substances Act to permit certain partial fillings of prescriptions.
Sec. 2 Prescriptions
Section 309(a) of the Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 829(a)) is amended—
by inserting “(1) In general.—” before “Except”; and
by adding at the end the following:
“(2) Partial filling of prescriptions
“(A) In general—A prescription for a controlled substance in schedule II may be partially filled if—
“(i) it is requested by—
“(I) the practitioner that wrote the prescription by making a notation on the face of the written prescription, written record of the emergency oral prescription, or in the electronic prescription record; or
“(II) the patient;
“(ii) the pharmacist partially filling the prescription records the partial filling in the same manner as a filling of the prescription;
“(iii) the pharmacist partially filling the prescription updates the record each time the prescription is partially filled;
“(iv) the total quantity dispensed in all partial fillings does not exceed the total quantity prescribed; and
“(v) the pharmacist notifies the practitioner that wrote the prescription of each partial fill.
“(B) Remaining portions—Remaining portions of a partially filled prescription—
“(i) may be filled; and
“(ii) must be exhausted prior to, or on the same date that such prescription, if fully filled, would have been exhausted.”