Requirements

Prescriptions for legend drugs which are not controlled substances may be transmitted by a prescribing practitioner or his agent to a pharmacy by means of a facsimile machine. All such prescriptions must comply with the following in addition to any other requirement of federal or state statute or regulation: (a) The facsimile prescription shall clearly contain the name of the pharmacy to which the facsimile is being transmitted and the name of the facility from which it is being transmitted if the prescription is written for an inpatient of a chronic or convalescent nursing home or a rest home with nursing supervision; (b) The facsimile prescription shall clearly display a statement in substantially the following form: "This prescription is valid only if transmitted by means of a facsimile machine"; and (c) The facsimile document received may be maintained as the actual prescription only if the nature of the equipment and paper ensures that the document will remain non-fading and durable for the minimum amount of time required for the maintenance of prescription records under federal and state statute or regulation. If the document will not remain non-fading or durable, the document transmitted by facsimile machine shall be reduced to writing, photocopied or converted into an individual hard copy printout.