Section 33-24-101 - Short Title; Definitions

33-24-101. Short title; definitions. (a) This act means W.S. 33-24-101 through 33-24-301 and shall be known as the 'Wyoming Pharmacy Act'. (b) As used in this act: (i) Repealed by Laws 2022, ch. 7, 2. (ii) 'Telepharmacy' means a site where prescription drugs are stored and dispensed that is remote from but under the active control and supervision of a parent pharmacy and a licensed pharmacist and that is subject to the requirements of W.S. 33-24-156; (iii) 'Collaborative pharmaceutical care' means a pharmacist working in collaboration with practitioners authorized to prescribe medications; (iv) 'Unprofessional conduct' means: (A) Dispensing a drug or brand of drug in filling a prescription which differs from that specified by the prescription, without authority of the issuer of the prescription, regarding the patient's name, drug, strength, quantity, directions or number of authorized refills; (B) Obtaining any fee by fraud or misrepresentation; (C) Willfully betraying patient confidences, provided a pharmacist may provide otherwise confidential patient information to other licensed health care professionals treating the patient; (D) Employing directly or indirectly any student,

ences, provided a pharmacist may provide otherwise confidential patient information to other licensed health care professionals treating the patient; (D) Employing directly or indirectly any student, any unlicensed pharmacy technician or any unlicensed pharmacist to practice pharmacy unless authorized by this act; (E) Advertising in a misleading, false or deceptive manner; (F) Filling a prescription which is more than two (2) years old; (G) Filling a prescription without reasonable inquiry and confirmation of its validity if there are reasonable grounds to doubt the current existence of a practitioner-patient relationship between the practitioner and the customer seeking to obtain the drug; (H) Filling a prescription with a drug that is past the expiration date provided by the manufacturer or supplier of the drug or other competent authority; (J) Filling a prescription with drugs which have not been refrigerated as recommended by the manufacturer or supplier of the drugs or by other competent authority; or (K) Other actions defined by rule and regulations as relevant to the pharmacist's professional character.