Hospital pharmacy dispensing prescription drugs to patients at discharge.
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(1) The division shall make rules, in accordance with Title 63G, Chapter 3, Utah Administrative Rulemaking Act, in consultation with hospital pharmacies, to establish guidelines under which a hospital pharmacy may dispense a limited supply of a prescription drug to an individual who is no longer a patient in the hospital setting if:
(a) the individual is discharged from the hospital on the same day that the hospital pharmacy dispenses the prescription drug to the individual;
(b) the prescription drug relates to the reason for which the individual was a patient at the hospital before being discharged;
(c) the class A pharmacy with which the patient has an established pharmacy-patient relationship is not open at the time of the patient's discharge;
(d) the hospital pharmacy dispenses a quantity of the prescription drug that is the lesser of:
(i) a 72-hour supply; or
(ii) an adequate amount to treat the discharged patient through the first day on which the pharmacy described in Subsection (1)(c) is open after the patient's discharge from the hospital; and
(e) dispensing the prescription drug complies with protocols established by the hospital pharmacy.
(2) A hospital pharmacy may dispense a prescription drug in accordance with rules made under Subsection (1).