457.450 - Establishment of Program; handling fee; conditions for acceptance, distribution and dispensing of donated drugs; certain restrictions. - Nevada Statutes

457.450  Establishment of Program; handling fee; conditions for acceptance, distribution and dispensing of donated drugs; certain restrictions.

      1.  The State Board of Pharmacy shall establish and maintain the Cancer Drug Donation Program to accept, distribute and dispense cancer drugs donated to the Program.

      2.  Any person may donate a cancer drug to the Program. A cancer drug may be donated at a pharmacy, medical facility, health clinic or provider of health care that participates in the Program.

      3.  A pharmacy, medical facility, health clinic or provider of health care that participates in the Program may charge a patient who receives a cancer drug a handling fee in accordance with the regulations adopted by the State Board of Pharmacy pursuant to NRS 457.480.

      4.  A cancer drug may be accepted, distributed or dispensed pursuant to the Program only if the cancer drug:

      (a) Is in its original, unopened, sealed and tamper-evident unit dose packaging or, if packaged in single-unit doses, the single-unit dose packaging is unopened;

      (b) Is not adulterated or misbranded; and

      (c) Bears an expiration date that is later than 30 days after the drug is donated.

      5.  A cancer drug donated to the Program may not be:

      (a) Resold; or

      (b) Designated by the donor for a specific person.

      6.  The provisions of this section do not require a pharmacy, medical facility, health clinic or provider of health care to participate in the Program.

      (Added to NRS by 2009, 455)