639.264 - Rebates, refunds and commissions. - Nevada Statutes

639.264  Rebates, refunds and commissions.

      1.  No registered pharmacist, or owner of any pharmacy licensed under the provisions of this chapter, may offer, deliver or pay any unearned rebate, refund, commission, preference, patronage dividend, discount or other unearned consideration to any person, whether in the form of money or otherwise, as compensation or inducement to such person for referring prescriptions, patients, clients or customers to such pharmacist or pharmacy, irrespective of any membership, proprietary interest or co-ownership in or with any person by whom such prescriptions, patients, clients or customers are referred.

      2.  The furnishing to a practitioner by a pharmacist or a pharmacy of prescription blanks bearing the name or name and address of any pharmacy is an unearned rebate and an inducement to refer patients to such pharmacist or pharmacy.

      (Added to NRS by 1967, 1663; A 1979, 1695)