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PRESCRIPTION DRUGS

Privacy of Physician Prescribing Data

RESOLVED, That the North Carolina Medical Society opposes the sale or distribution of individual physician prescribing data to any entity, except as required by law; and be it further

RESOLVED, That the North Carolina Medical Society supports state and federal efforts to prohibit the pharmacies or other entities from selling or distributing individual physician prescribing data to any entity, except as required by law, without the express written consent of the prescribing physician.

(Substitute Resolution 19 – 2004, adopted 11/14/2004)
(reaffirmed, Report I-2009, Item 2-42, adopted 11/01/2009) (reaffirmed, Reaffirmation Report-2014, Item 82, adopted 10/25/2014)
(reaffirmed, NCMS Board Report-2019, Page 4, Item 1-1, adopted 7/26/2019)