North Carolina Administrative Code (Last Updated: November 13, 2014) |
TITLE 10A. HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES |
CHAPTER 39. ADULT HEALTH |
SUBCHAPTER A. CHRONIC DISEASE |
10A NCAC 39A .1302. DEFINITIONS
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(a) "Cardiovascular disease" shall mean diagnoses of hypertension, angina, arrhythmia, or heart failure.
(b) "Diabetes" shall mean diabetes mellitus.
(c) "Prescription drug" shall mean any drug product required by federal or state law to include "Rx only" or "Caution: Federal law prohibits dispensing without prescription" upon its label prior to dispensing of the product to a patient, or any drug required by the North Carolina Medicaid Pharmacy Program to be dispensed pursuant to a prescription.
(d) "Outpatient prescription drug" shall mean any drug defined in Paragraph (c) of this Rule that is dispensed by a pharmacy which holds a valid permit issued by the North Carolina Board of Pharmacy to a patient for use outside of a health or medical inpatient facility such as a hospital, long-term care facility, or medical clinic.
History Note: Authority S.L. 1999, c. 237, s. 11.1.(a);
Temporary Adoption Eff. February 10, 2000;
Eff. April 1, 2001.