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Tenn. Code Ann. § 63-10-501

Part definitions

Acts 2017, ch. 392, § 1.

As used in this part:

(1) “Anti-rejection drug” means a prescription drug that suppresses the immune system to prevent or reverse rejection of a transplanted organ;

(2) “Board” means the board of pharmacy;

(3) “Cancer drug” means a prescription drug that is used to treat any of the following: Cancer or the side effects of cancer; or

(4) The side effects of any prescription drug that is used to treat cancer or the side effects of cancer;

(5) “Controlled substance” means the same as defined in § 39-17-402;

(6) “Department” means the department of health;

(7) “Donor” means a person, a pharmacy, or medical facility as well as any drug manufacturer or wholesaler licensed by the board of pharmacy, who donates prescription drugs to a repository program approved pursuant to this part;

(8) “Eligible individual” means an indigent person or an uninsured person who meets all other criteria established by board rule;

(9) “Indigent” means a person with an income that is below two hundred percent (200%) of the federal poverty level as defined by the most recently revised poverty income guidelines published by the United States department of health and human services;

(10) “Medical facility” means any of the following: A physician's office;

(11) A hospital;

(12) A health clinic;

(13) A nonprofit health clinic, which includes a federally qualified health center as defined in 42 U.S.C. § 1396d(l)(2)(B); a rural health clinic, as defined in 42 U.S.C. § 1396d(l)(1); and a nonprofit health clinic that provides medical care to patients who are indigent, uninsured, or underinsured;

(14) A free clinic as defined in § 63-6-703;

(15) A charitable organization as defined in § 48-101-501; or

(16) A nursing home as defined in § 68-11-201;

(17) “Pharmacy” means a pharmacy as defined in § 63-10-204;

(18) “Prescription drug” means the same as defined in § 63-10-204, except the drug is only tablet or capsule form, and includes cancer drugs and anti-rejection drugs, but does not include controlled substances and drugs covered by the risk evaluation and mitigation strategy program of the federal food and drug administration; and

(19) “Supplies” means the supplies necessary to administer the prescription drugs donated.

Current official text: Tennessee Code (LexisNexis). Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Tennessee statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.