previously considered by Program staff or the (a) The Department of Health and Human Services Participant unless significant new information ("Department") may report to the North Carolina Medical Board is provided to the panel. ("Board") information regarding the prescribing practices of those (7) The panel shall reduce its decision to writing physicians and physician assistants ("prescribers") whose and provide a copy of its written decision to the prescribing: Participant and Program staff within five (1) falls within the top one two percent of those business days. prescribing 100 morphine milligrams of (8) The panel's decision is binding upon the morphine equivalents ("MME") per patient per Program and the Participant. day; or (9) The Program staff shall make an official (2) falls within the top one two percent of those recording of the teleconference meeting and prescribing 100 MME's per patient per day in preserve the recording. The Participant is combination with any benzodiazepine and who allowed to make a recording of the meeting. are within the top one percent of all controlled (h) After completion of the review, new or additional review substance prescribers by volume. requests may be made by the Participant only if there are new (b) In addition, the Department may report to the Board findings or recommendations by PHP regarding the Participant. information regarding prescribers who have had two or more patient deaths in the preceding twelve months due to opioid poisoning. poisoning where the prescribers authorized more than Authority G.S. 9021.22. 30 tablets of an opioid to the decedent and the prescriptions were SUBCHAPTER 32M APPROVAL OF NURSE written within 60 days of the patient deaths. – (c) The Department may submit these reports to the Board upon PRACTICIONERS request and may include the information described in G.S. 21 NCAC 32M .0111 METHOD OF IDENTIFICATION (READOPTION CHANGES) (d) The reports and communications between the Department and the Board shall remain confidential pursuant to G.S. 90-16 and SUBCHAPTER 32Y CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE G.S. 90-113.74. – REPORTING SYSTEM Authority G.S. 90-113.74. 21 NCAC 32Y .0101 REPORTING CRITERIA
previously considered by Program staff or the Participant unless significant new information is provided to the panel. (7) The panel shall reduce its decision to writing and provide a copy of its written decision to the Participant and Program staff within five business days. (8) The panel's decision is binding upon the Program and the Participant. (9) The Program staff shall make an official recording of the teleconference meeting and preserve the recording. The Participant is allowed to make a recording of the meeting. (h) After completion of the review, new or additional review requests may be made by the Participant only if there are new findings or recommendations by PHP regarding the Participant. Authority G.S. 9021.22. SUBCHAPTER 32M – APPROVAL OF NURSE PRACTICIONERS 21 NCAC 32M .0111 METHOD OF IDENTIFICATION (READOPTION CHANGES) SUBCHAPTER 32Y – CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE REPORTING SYSTEM 21 NCAC 32Y .0101 REPORTING CRITERIA (a) The Department of Health and Human Services ("Department") may report to the North Carolina Medical Board ("Board") information regarding the prescribing practices of those physicians and physician assistants ("prescribers") whose prescribing: (1) falls within the top one two percent of those prescribing 100 morphine milligrams of morphine equivalents ("MME") per patient per day; or (2) falls within the top one two percent of those prescribing 100 MME's per patient per day in combination with any benzodiazepine and who are within the top one percent of all controlled substance prescribers by volume. (b) In addition, the Department may report to the Board information regarding prescribers who have had two or more patient deaths in the preceding twelve months due to opioid poisoning. poisoning where the prescribers authorized more than 30 tablets of an opioid to the decedent and the prescriptions were written within 60 days of the patient deaths. (c) The Department may submit these reports to the Board upon request and may include the information described in G.S. (d) The reports and communications between the Department and the Board shall remain confidential pursuant to G.S. 90-16 and G.S. 90-113.74. Authority G.S. 90-113.74.
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