(720 ILCS 570/314.5)
Sec. 314.5. Medication shopping; pharmacy shopping.
(a) It shall be unlawful for any person knowingly or intentionally to fraudulently obtain or fraudulently seek to obtain any controlled substance or prescription for a controlled substance from a prescriber or dispenser while being supplied with any controlled substance or prescription for a controlled substance by another prescriber or dispenser, without disclosing the fact of the existing controlled substance or prescription for a controlled substance to the prescriber or dispenser from whom the subsequent controlled substance or prescription for a controlled substance is sought.
(b) It shall be unlawful for a person knowingly or intentionally to fraudulently obtain or fraudulently seek to obtain any controlled substance from a pharmacy while being supplied with any controlled substance by another pharmacy, without disclosing the fact of the existing controlled substance to the pharmacy from which the subsequent controlled substance is sought.
(c) A person may be in violation of Section 3.23 of the Illinois Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act when medication shopping or pharmacy shopping, or both.
(d) When a person has been identified as having 6 or more prescribers or 6 or more pharmacies, or both, that do not utilize a common electronic file as specified in Section 20 of the Pharmacy Practice Act for controlled substances within the course of a continuous 30-day period, the Prescription Monitoring Program may issue an unsolicited report to the prescribers informing them of the potential medication shopping.
(e) Nothing in this Section shall be construed to create a requirement that any prescriber, dispenser, or pharmacist request any patient medication disclosure, report any patient activity, or prescribe or refuse to prescribe or dispense any medications.
(f) This Section shall not be construed to apply to inpatients or residents at hospitals or other institutions or to institutional pharmacies.
(Source: P.A. 97-334, eff. 1-1-12.)
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