2018 Colorado Revised Statutes
Title 12 - Professions and Occupations
Health Care
Article 42.5 - Pharmacists, Pharmacy Businesses, and Pharmaceuticals
Part 5 - Therapeutic Interchange and Therapeutically Equivalent Selections
§ 12-42.5-501. Written guidelines and procedures for making therapeutic interchange and therapeutically equivalent selections
(1) If a nursing care facility or a long-term acute care hospital licensed under part 1 of article 3 of title 25, C.R.S., has a quality assessment and assurance committee that includes a pharmacist licensed under this article and is established in accordance with 42 CFR 483.75 (o), the quality assessment and assurance committee may establish a facility list with written guidelines and procedures for making therapeutic interchange and therapeutically equivalent selections from the list.
(2) If a nursing care facility or a long-term acute care hospital licensed under part 1 of article 3 of title 25, C.R.S., does not have a quality assessment and assurance committee that includes a pharmacist licensed under this article and is established in accordance with 42 CFR 483.75 (o), the facility may form such a committee to establish a facility list with written guidelines and procedures for making therapeutic interchange and therapeutically equivalent selections from the list.