House Committee To Consider National Rx Drug Monitoring Bill Sept. 30
This article was originally published in The Pink Sheet Daily
Executive Summary
The “National All Schedules Prescription Electronic Reporting Act” would create a nationwide monitoring system. Thirty-one states currently have monitoring programs or are working to create them, but the state-centered systems are “inherently flawed” because they do not reach across state lines, the bill’s sponsor says.
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