70.929 Automated Pharmacy Refills without Patient Authorization
The Medical Society of the State of New York (MSSNY) will support legislation and/or regulation that would limit automated medication refills by requiring that the patient request the medication prior to transmittal of the request to the prescribing providers electronic system. MSSNY will advocate pharmacists be required to review the appropriateness and validity of medication refill requests prior to transmitting the refill request to the prescribing providers electronic system.
MSSNY will support legislation to reduce unnecessary and redundant pharmacy refill requests and provide payment to the physician for pharmacy generated refill requests that occur outside the time of a patient encounter. (HOD 2020-107 and 2020-114, referred to Council, adopted 6/3/21)
