Section 2081.20 Definitions and Incorporation by
Reference
No incorporations by reference in this Part include any
later amendments or editions. The definitions that apply to this Part are
those found in the Act and those in this Section.
"Act" means the Illinois
Controlled Substances Act [720 ILCS 570].
"Birth Date" means the medication
recipient's birth date.
"Central Repository"
means a place designated by the Department where Schedule II, III, IV and V drug
data is stored or housed.
"Clinical Director"
means a DHS administrative employee licensed to either prescribe or dispense
controlled substances who shall run the clinical aspects of the DHS
Prescription Monitoring Program and its Prescription Information Library [720
ILCS 570/102(d-5)].
"Controlled
Substance" means a drug, substance, or immediate precursor in the
Schedules of Article II of the Illinois Controlled Substances Act, or a drug or
other substance, or immediate precursor, designated as a controlled substance
by the DHS [720 ILCS 570/102(f)].
"DEA Number" means the
United States Drug Enforcement Agency prescriber or dispenser registration
number.
"Department" or "DHS"
means the Illinois Department of Human Services, or its successor agency.
"Dispenser" means any
practitioner or pharmacy that dispenses a controlled substance to an
ultimate user or research subject by or pursuant to the lawful order of a
prescriber [720 ILCS 570/102(p) and (q)].
"DPH"
means the Illinois Department of Public Health.
"Electronic Device"
means using a computer system to transmit prescriptions from a prescriber
directly to a dispenser.
"Exempt Prescribers in
Hospitals and Institutions" means prescribers in hospitals or institutions
licensed under the Hospital Licensing Act [210 ILCS 85] who authorize the
administration or dispensing of Schedule II drugs within the hospital or
institution, for consumption within the hospital or institution (e.g.,
controlled substance prescriptions when a prescriber does not maintain his or
her own DEA and State controlled substance license, but prescribes based upon
the institution's (hospital's) controlled substance licenses).
"Facsimile Equipment"
means any device capable of sending or receiving facsimiles of documents
through connection with a telecommunications network.
"HFS"
means the Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services.
"Illinois Controlled
Substances License Number" means the State license number issued by the
Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation (DFPR) permitting
prescribers to possess, prescribe or dispense, and permitting dispensers to
possess and dispense, controlled substances in Illinois pursuant to the
Controlled Substances Act (see 77 Ill. Adm. Code 3100).
"Licensed Healthcare Provider"
means any individual who meets the professional licensing requirements and
follows the standards set forth by DFPR and are authorized to prescribe or
dispense controlled substances within Illinois.
"Long Term Care" or "LTC"
means:
any facility
defined by Section 1-113 of the Nursing Home Care Act; and
any skilled nursing facility or a
nursing facility that meets the requirements of section 1819(a), (b), (c) and
(d) or section 1919(a), (b), (c) and (d) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C.
1395i-3(a), (b), (c) and (d) and 1396r(a), (b), (c) and (d)).
"Long Term Care Pharmacy"
or "LTC Pharmacy" means those pharmacies that, either as a primary or
secondary focus, provide prescription services to those inpatient institutions
licensed as LTC facilities by DPH.
"Mid-level Practitioner"
means:
a physician assistant who has
been delegated authority to prescribe through a written delegation of authority
by a physician licensed to practice medicine in all of its branches, in
accordance with Section 7.5 of the Physician Assistant Practice Act of 1987
[225 ILCS 95];
an advanced practice registered
nurse who has been delegated authority to prescribe through a written
delegation of authority by a physician licensed to practice medicine in all of
its branches or by a podiatric physician, in accordance with Section 65-40 of
the Nurse Practice Act [225 ILCS 65];
an advanced practice registered
nurse certified as a nurse practitioner, nurse midwife, or clinical nurse
specialist who has been granted authority to prescribe by a hospital affiliate
in accordance with Section 65-45 of the Nurse Practice Act;
an animal
euthanasia agency; or
a
prescribing psychologist. [720 ILCS 570/102(z-10)]
"National Drug Code
Identification Number" or "NDC Identification Number" means the
number used to provide uniform product identification for all substances
recognized as drugs in the United States Pharmacopoeia National Formulary, USP31-NF26
(US Pharmacopoeial Convention, 12601 Twinbrook Parkway, Rockville, Maryland 20852
(2013)).
"Patient ID" means the
identification of the individual receiving the medication or the responsible
individual obtaining the medication on behalf of the recipient or the owner of
the animal. The standards for establishing patient ID for the purpose of
proper filling of a prescription are established by 77 Ill. Adm. Code
2080.70(d).
"Patient Location Code"
means the portion of a LTC pharmacy's system of electronic files that
identifies with which LTC facility, and what classification of care, the
individual patient is associated.
"Prescribed"
means ordered by a prescriber verbally, electronically or in writing.
"Prescriber" means the
healthcare professional that is authorized to prescribe medications as set
forth in the various professional practices of the State of Illinois.
"Prescription Information
Library" or "PIL" means an electronic library containing 12
months of controlled substance, retail, prescription information
that is accessible only by prescribers and dispensers for patient treatment
usage [720 ILCS 570/102(nn-5)].
"Prescription Monitoring
Program" or "PMP" means the entity that collects, tracks, and
stores reported data on controlled substances and select drugs [720 ILCS
570/102(nn-10)].
"Prescription Monitoring
Program Advisory Committee" or "PMPAC" means a committee
consisting of licensed healthcare providers representing all professions that
are licensed to prescribe or dispense controlled substances. The committee
serves in a consultant context regarding longitudinal evaluations of compliance
with evidence based clinical practice and controlled substances. The committee
makes recommendations regarding scheduling of controlled substances and
recommendations concerning continuing education designed at improving the
health and safety of the citizens of Illinois regarding pharmacotherapies of
controlled substances (e.g., the choice of medications, the frequency of
refills, concomitant pharmacotherapies of other medications, all of which
affect clinical response and possible dependency on those therapies).
"Quantities of a Controlled
Substance Dispensed" means the total of a National Drug Code product
dispensed whether it is in a solid unit such as a tablet or capsule, in a
liquid unit such as milliliters, or in another unit as specified within the
product identification.
"Recipient's Name" means
the given or common name of a person who is the intended user of a dispensed
medication. It may also mean the species or common name or common given name
of an animal that is the intended user of a dispensed medication. If an
animal's name is entered, the owner's name is required also.
"Schedule Drug" means
any substances listed in the federal Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 812)
or the Illinois Controlled Substances Act [720 ILCS 570] or by the Department
pursuant to its authority under Section 202 of the Illinois Controlled
Substances Act. Schedule, I, II, III, IV and V substances are listed in
section 812 of the federal Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 812(b)(2),
(b)(3), (b)(4), (b)(5) and (c)) and Sections 204, 206, 208, 210 and 212 of the
Illinois Controlled Substances Act.
"Sex" means the
medication recipient's biological status of being male or female at birth.
(Source: Amended at 47 Ill. Reg. 10948,
effective July 7, 2023)