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To see 11 CSR 10 adopted as an emergency rule effective July 5, 2012: click here.

On July 9, 2012, the Board of Medicine adopted Model Guidelines for the Appropriate use of Social Media and Social Networking in Medical Practice. It may be reviewed under Position Statements.

Attention Drug Dispensing Renewals

On April 10, 2013, those medical doctors and podiatrists who are currently registered with the Board as dispensing physicians will be mailed information relative to the renewal of their drug dispensing certificate. Beginning April 16, 2013, these drug dispensing physicians may renew their drug dispensing certification online, as we specified in our last two newsletters CLICK HERE. If a drug dispensing physician is unable to use the online renewal service, the physician may use the renewal form mailed on April 10, 2013. Call Kim Jett at the Board offices (304.558.2921 x70004) or via email (kimberly.r.jett@wv.gov) for any questions. The online application or paper application must be completed and submitted BEFORE Sunday, June 30, 2013, at 4:30 p.m., in order to maintain a continuous certificate to dispense.

To renew your current West Virginia Drug Dispensing registration online, CLICK HERE.

ATTENTION PHYSICIAN ASSISTANTS

CHANGES TO PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT DRUG FORMULARY

Physician assistants who hold active prescriptive writing privileges may now obtain the authority to write prescriptions for anticoagulants. Following legislative changes to §30-3-16 of the Medical Practice Act, anticoagulants have been added to the Board approved Physician Assistant Formulary. If you are applying for initial privileges, your supervising physician should initial this medication as part of your completed application if this privilege is deemed necessary for you to carry out duties delegated by your supervisor. If you are a physician assistant who currently holds prescriptive writing privileges and you wish to update your formulary with this category, you must resubmit an initialed formulary. You are NOT required to resubmit an entire application or the normally associated fee, if you are changing ONLY this medication. Please include a cover letter with identifying information (name, license number, contact information) so that the update will be applied to the correct file and page one (1) of the prescriptive writing privilege application. If you are making other changes to your formulary, you must resubmit an entire application with the $50 fee.

If you have any questions regarding this change or any other physician assistant issues, please contact Amy Callihan, at Amy.C.Callihan@wv.gov or 304.558.2921, Ext. 70002.

To access the updated application click here

Verifications
The WV Board of Medicine has partnered with Veridoc, Inc., to offer a fully automated, internet-based, license verification system for medical doctors and physician assistants requiring a hard-copy verification. More information regarding this new arrangement may be found on our SERVICES PAGE.

To obtain a written verification, visit http://www.veridoc.org.

West Virginia Medical Professionals Health Program, Inc., provides monitoring services to licensees (M.D.'s, D.P.M.'s, and P.A.-C.'s) with dependency, addiction, and mental health disorders while they pursue treatment and recovery for the same. Confidential participation in this physician health program is assured in instances where the licensee voluntarily self reports and remains in compliance with the program's requirements. This program was formally established five years ago, and WVMPHP, Inc., with a 1000% growth in participants during this period, the WVMPHP continues to actively make medical professionals and the health service industry statewide aware of its services and to provide education regarding the issues of substance abuse and dependency.

The Bridgeport Office of WVMPHP, Inc., is located at 680 Genesis Boulevard, Suite #201, Bridgeport, WV 26330, telephone 304.933.1030, fax 304.933.1006. Office Hours: 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday - Friday.

P. Bradley Hall, M.D., Executive Medical Director, may be reached at bhallmd@wvmphp.org.

Linda Allman, Case Manager located in the Bridgeport Office, may be reached at lallman@wvmphp.org.

Notice
West Virginia State Law, West Virginia Code § 60A-4-410, provides that it is a misdemeanor for a patient, in an attempt to obtain a prescription for a controlled substance, to knowingly withhold from a practitioner, that the patient has obtained a controlled substance prescription of the same or similar therapeutic use in a concurrent time period from another practitioner. Upon conviction, a fine and imprisonment may be imposed. For a Notice of the law which may be downloaded and placed in a practitioner’s office, CLICK HERE. (You will need Adobe Reader to open and print this file.)

Please note that under Enrolled Committee Substitute for S.B. 437, relating to substance abuse and diversion, now in effect, a prescribing or dispensing practitioner who makes a notification pursuant to West Virginia Code § 60A-4-410 is immune from any civil, administrative or criminal liability that otherwise might be incurred or imposed because of the notification if the notification is made in good faith.