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2010 Florida Statutes
Pharmacies; general requirements; fees.
Pharmacies; general requirements; fees.
—The board shall adopt rules pursuant to ss. 120.536(1) and 120.54 to implement the provisions of this chapter. Such rules shall include, but shall not be limited to, rules relating to:
General drug safety measures.
Minimum standards for the physical facilities of pharmacies.
Safe storage of floor-stock drugs.
Functions of a pharmacist in an institutional pharmacy, consistent with the size and scope of the pharmacy.
Procedures for the safe storage and handling of radioactive drugs.
Procedures for the distribution and disposition of medicinal drugs distributed pursuant to s. 499.028.
Procedures for transfer of prescription files and medicinal drugs upon the change of ownership or closing of a pharmacy.
Minimum equipment which a pharmacy shall at all times possess to fill prescriptions properly.
A pharmacy permit shall be issued only to a person who is at least 18 years of age, a partnership whose partners are all at least 18 years of age, or to a corporation that is registered pursuant to chapter 607 or chapter 617 whose officers, directors, and shareholders are at least 18 years of age.
Any person, partnership, or corporation before engaging in the operation of a pharmacy shall file with the board a sworn application on forms provided by the department.
An application for a pharmacy permit must include a set of fingerprints from each person having an ownership interest of 5 percent or greater and from any person who, directly or indirectly, manages, oversees, or controls the operation of the applicant, including officers and members of the board of directors of an applicant that is a corporation. The applicant must provide payment in the application for the cost of state and national criminal history records checks.
For corporations having more than $100 million of business taxable assets in this state, in lieu of these fingerprint requirements, the department shall require the prescription department manager who will be directly involved in the management and operation of the pharmacy to submit a set of fingerprints.
A representative of a corporation described in subparagraph 1. satisfies the requirement to submit a set of his or her fingerprints if the fingerprints are on file with the department or the Agency for Health Care Administration, meet the fingerprint specifications for submission by the Department of Law Enforcement, and are available to the department.
The department shall submit the fingerprints provided by the applicant to the Department of Law Enforcement for a state criminal history records check. The Department of Law Enforcement shall forward the fingerprints to the Federal Bureau of Investigation for a national criminal history records check.
The department or board shall deny an application for a pharmacy permit if the applicant or an affiliated person, partner, officer, director, or prescription department manager of the applicant has:
Obtained a permit by misrepresentation or fraud;
Attempted to procure, or has procured, a permit for any other person by making, or causing to be made, any false representation;
Been convicted of, or entered a plea of guilty or nolo contendere to, regardless of adjudication, a crime in any jurisdiction which relates to the practice of, or the ability to practice, the profession of pharmacy;
Been convicted of, or entered a plea of guilty or nolo contendere to, regardless of adjudication, a crime in any jurisdiction which relates to health care fraud;
Been terminated for cause, pursuant to the appeals procedures established by the state or Federal Government, from any state Medicaid program or the federal Medicare program, unless the applicant has been in good standing with a state Medicaid program or the federal Medicare program for the most recent 5 years and the termination occurred at least 20 years ago; or
Dispensed any medicinal drug based upon a communication that purports to be a prescription as defined by s. 465.003(14) or s. 893.02 when the pharmacist knows or has reason to believe that the purported prescription is not based upon a valid practitioner-patient relationship that includes a documented patient evaluation, including history and a physical examination adequate to establish the diagnosis for which any drug is prescribed and any other requirement established by board rule under chapter 458, chapter 459, chapter 461, chapter 463, chapter 464, or chapter 466.
After the application has been filed with the board and the permit fee provided in this section has been received, the board shall cause the application to be fully investigated, both as to the qualifications of the applicant and the prescription department manager or consultant pharmacist designated to be in charge and as to the premises and location described in the application.
The Board of Pharmacy shall have the authority to determine whether a bona fide transfer of ownership is present and that the sale of a pharmacy is not being accomplished for the purpose of avoiding an administrative prosecution.
Upon the completion of the investigation of an application, the board shall approve or disapprove the application. If approved, the permit shall be issued by the department.
Permits issued by the department are not transferable.
The board shall set the fees for the following:
Initial permit fee not to exceed $250.
Biennial permit renewal not to exceed $250.
Delinquent fee not to exceed $100.
Change of location fee not to exceed $100.
ss. 1, 7, ch. 79-226; ss. 2, 3, ch. 81-318; s. 36, ch. 82-225; ss. 16, 26, 27, ch. 86-256; s. 6, ch. 88-172; s. 14, ch. 88-205; s. 59, ch. 91-137; s. 6, ch. 91-156; s. 4, ch. 91-429; s. 127, ch. 98-200; s. 27, ch. 2009-223.