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The 194th General Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
  1. General Laws
  2. Part I ADMINISTRATION OF THE GOVERNMENT
  3. Title XVI PUBLIC HEALTH
  4. Chapter 111 PUBLIC HEALTH
  5. Section 121B Prescription and distribution of drugs to treat Chlamydia and other sexually transmitted infections in unexamined sexual partners of patients

Section 121B

Section 121B: Prescription and distribution of drugs to treat Chlamydia and other sexually transmitted infections in unexamined sexual partners of patients

Section 121B. Notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary, the department, in consultation with the board of registration in medicine, shall promulgate regulations authorizing a physician, physician assistant, nurse practitioner or certified nurse midwife who is authorized under chapter 94C to prescribe and dispense prescription drugs and who diagnoses infections due to Chlamydia trachomatis and other sexually transmitted infections suitable for expedited partner treatment based on national standards, including, but not limited to, standards outlined in the Center for Disease Control's Sexually Transmitted Infections Treatment Guidelines and as further defined in regulation by the department, to prescribe and dispense such prescription drugs to a patient's sexual partners for the presumptive treatment of infection without an examination of the patient's sexual partners.