Massachusetts § 121B Prescription and distribution of drugs to treat Chlamydia in unexamined sexual partners of patients

Massachusetts Statutes

§ 121B — Prescription and distribution of drugs to treat Chlamydia in unexamined sexual partners of patients

Massachusetts § 121B

Part IADMINISTRATION OF THE GOVERNMENT

Title XVIPUBLIC HEALTH

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Bluebook

Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 111, § 121B (2026).

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[ Text of section effective until July 1, 2024. For text effective July 1, 2024, see below.]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 in individual patients, to prescribe and dispense such prescription drugs to a patient's sexual partners for the presumptive treatment of Chlamydia infection without an examination of the patient's sexual partners.Section 121B. Prescription and distribution of drugs to treat Chlamydia and other se

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[ Text of section effective until July 1, 2024. For text effective July 1, 2024, see below.]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 in individual patients, to prescribe and dispense such prescription drugs to a patient's sexual partners for the presumptive treatment of Chlamydia infection without an examination of the patient's sexual partners.Section 121B. Prescription and distribution of drugs to treat Chlamydia and other sexually transmitted infections in unexamined sexual partners of patients[ Text of section as amended by 2024, 140, Secs. 113 and 114 effective July 1, 2024. See 2024, 140, Sec. 264. For text effective until July 1, 2024, see above.]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.