Amendment #693 to H3400

Pharmacy Definition

Representatives Kafka of Stoughton and Galvin of Canton moves to amend the bill by inserting after section 75 the following section:

"SECTION XX. 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.”".