Legislature sends fix of last year’s pill-mill bill to Beshear
“After more than a year of debate, a bill that would revamp Kentucky’s
prescription-drug law to more strictly focus on pill abuse and ease
requirements on patients is heading to the governor’s desk,” Mike Wynn reports for The Courier-Journal. On a 36-0 vote, the Senate sent House Bill 217 to Gov. Steve Beshear, who said he will sign it tomorrow.
prescription-drug law to more strictly focus on pill abuse and ease
requirements on patients is heading to the governor’s desk,” Mike Wynn reports for The Courier-Journal. On a 36-0 vote, the Senate sent House Bill 217 to Gov. Steve Beshear, who said he will sign it tomorrow.
The chief lobbyist for the Kentucky Medical Association said the physicians’ group did not get all the changes it requested in last year’s law but is satisfied with the bill. It “would exempt hospitals and long-term care facilities from many of the
requirements that doctors must follow before prescribing drugs,” Wynn writes. “It also
creates a 14-day exemption for surgery patients and gives doctors more
discretion in examining patients before a prescription is given.” (Read more)