Legal Status of EPT in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands

“’Patient,’ as used in any context in this Chapter, means a person for whom health care professional services are performed or to whom health care products or services are sold or provided at the site of a health care professional’s practice or through referral to another location or business in which the health care professional has a material interest”  NMIAC § 140-50.3-305*

“The Pharmacist shall not dispense a Prescription Drug if the Pharmacist knows or reasonably should know that the Prescription Drug Order was issued solely on the basis of an Internet-based questionnaire, an Internet-based consultation, or a telephonic consultation, all without a valid Patient-Practitioner relationship”  NMIAC § 140-50.3-3571*
“’Compounding’ means the preparation of Components into a Drug product (1) as the result of a Practitioner’s Prescription Drug Order or initiative based on the Practitioner/patient/Pharmacist relationship in the course of professional practice, or (2) for the purpose of, or as an incident to, research, teaching, or chemical analysis and not for sale or Dispensing.

Compounding includes the preparation of Drugs or Devices in anticipation of receiving Prescription Drug Orders based on routine, regularly observed prescribing patterns.

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(q) “Dispense” or “Dispensing” means the interpretation, evaluation, and implementation of a Prescription Drug Order, including the preparation and Delivery of a Drug or Device to a patient or patient’s agent in a suitable container appropriately labeled for subsequent Administration to, or use by, a patient.”  NMIAC § 140-50.3-3500*

“A Prescription Drug Order shall contain the following information at a minimum: (a) full name, date of birth, and street address or P.O. Box of the patient” NMIAC § 140-50.3-3570*