Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia: 1. That §54.1-2523.1 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows: §54.1-2523.1. Criteria for indicators of misuse; Director's authority to disclose information; intervention. A. The Director shall develop, in consultation with an advisory panel which shall include representatives of the Boards of Medicine and Pharmacy, criteria for indicators of unusual patterns of prescribing or dispensing of covered substances by prescribers or dispensers and misuse of covered substances by recipients and a method for analysis of data collected by the Prescription Monitoring Program using the criteria for indicators of misuse to identify unusual patterns of prescribing or dispensing of covered substances by individual prescribers or dispensers or potential misuse of a covered substance by a recipient.
1. Disclose information about the unusual prescribing or dispensing of a covered substance by an individual prescriber or dispenser to the Enforcement Division of the Department of Health Professions; or 2. Disclose information about the specific recipient to (i)
the prescriber or prescribers who have prescribed a covered substance to the
recipient for the purpose of intervention to prevent |