Texas § 562.112 PRACTITIONER-PATIENT RELATIONSHIP REQUIRED.

Texas Statutes

§ 562.112 — PRACTITIONER-PATIENT RELATIONSHIP REQUIRED.

Texas § 562.112

Code OCOccupations Code

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Tex. Occupations Code Code Ann. § 562.112 (2026).

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Sec. 562.112. PRACTITIONER-PATIENT RELATIONSHIP REQUIRED.

(a)A pharmacy shall ensure that its agents and employees, before dispensing a prescription, determine in the exercise of sound professional judgment that the prescription is a valid prescription. A pharmacy may not dispense a prescription drug if an agent or employee of the pharmacy knows or should know that the prescription was issued on the basis of an Internet-based or telephonic consultation without a valid practitioner-patient relationship.

(b)Subsection (a) does not prohibit a pharmacy from dispensing a prescription when a valid practitioner-patient relationship is not present in an emergency. SUBCHAPTER D. COMPOUNDED AND PREPACKAGED DRUGS

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Sec. 562.112. PRACTITIONER-PATIENT RELATIONSHIP REQUIRED. (a) A pharmacy shall ensure that its agents and employees, before dispensing a prescription, determine in the exercise of sound professional judgment that the prescription is a valid prescription. A pharmacy may not dispense a prescription drug if an agent or employee of the pharmacy knows or should know that the prescription was issued on the basis of an Internet-based or telephonic consultation without a valid practitioner-patient relationship.
(b) Subsection (a) does not prohibit a pharmacy from dispensing a prescription when a valid practitioner-patient relationship is not present in an emergency.
SUBCHAPTER D. COMPOUNDED AND PREPACKAGED DRUGS

Legislative History

Added by Acts 2005, 79th Leg., Ch. 1345 (S.B. 410 ), Sec. 22, eff. September 1, 2005. Renumbered from Occupations Code, Section 562.111 by Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 921 (H.B. 3167 ), Sec. 17.001(58), eff. September 1, 2007.