HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 3439        FILED ON: 1/14/2009

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 2071

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Nine

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An Act relative to the definition of a pharmacy..

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
 

SECTION 1.  Chapter 112, section  39C of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2005 Official Edition, is hereby amended by inserting the word “infusion,” in place of the word fusionist,  everywhere that the word fusionist appears in this section, and replacing the last sentence of this section with the following sentence:

“For the purposes of this section, the term home infusion pharmacy shall mean a pharmacy which dispenses pharmaceuticals, sterile intravenous drugs and nutritional products ordered by physicians to patients in their homes and other similar institutional sites of care as determined by the board.”