As with all medical records documentation, the notation must be contemporaneous, legible and provide complete information.  In this case, complete information would include the date of the review and the identity of the provider who reviewed the information.

Yes. A patient, the patient’s parent or legal guardian if the patient is a minor, or the patient’s legal guardian if the patient is an incapacitated person, may receive a copy of the patient’s PMP record, including a list of who has accessed that record.

For more information on how to submit a request, please review the Pharmacy Board’s Patient Access Program page, found here: https://www.pharmacy.texas.gov/patient-access/

There are three different ways you can qualify for a waiver. If you or your practice is experiencing any of the following, you may qualify for a waiver:

1. By experiencing economic hardship. When evaluating whether you are experiencing economic hardship, consider:
   1. special situational factors which affect either the cost of compliance or your ability to comply;
   2. the likely impact of compliance on profitability or viability; and
   3. the availability of measures that would mitigate the economic impact of complying.

2. If your practice has technological limitations not reasonably within your control.   
3. Other exceptional circumstances that would lead to you or your practice being unable to set up an e-prescribing process.

On the waiver form, you will have to specify any of the above categories you are experiencing. 

Currently, each individual physician who needs a waiver will have to apply for their own individual waiver. Although this may change in the future, TMB is currently unable to track waivers by group.      

If the supervising physician has a waiver, then the prescribing delegate is also covered under that waiver. So long as the prescribing delegate is prescribing under the authority of a physician who has been granted a waiver, then the prescribing delegate may use non-electronic prescribing means.  If a prescribing delegate is issuing a prescription under the authority of a physician who does not have a waiver, then the prescribing delegate must issue the prescription via e-prescribing. 

If an individual wants to look up whether a prescribing delegate has a waver they can do so as listed below:

For physician assistants:  A PA’s waiver status will not be viewable on their TMB public profile.  Each PA’s public profile has a link to their supervising physician’s profile page.  The physician’s profile page will list the waiver status. 

For nurse practitioners: APRN waivers are determined by the Texas Board of Nursing. Information on the waiver process for the APRNs is available on the Texas Board of Nursing Website.

Email renewal reminders are sent 60-90 days before the expiration date, from no.reply@tmb.state.tx.us. We recommend that you add this email address to your contacts list so they will not be lost.  Please check your junk and spam mail for these notices if you are not receiving them.  If you have any questions about the fingerprint requirements or the renewal process, please contact us at Registrations@tmb.state.tx.us.

The Board understands that medical or mental health treatment is a normal part of many people's lives and receiving treatment such as counseling or therapy does not alone disqualify a licensee.  However, the Board is obligated to determine whether a licensee is physically and mentally fit to practice and, therefore, must inquire to the extent necessary to make this determination.  While the application does include a question pertaining to impairment, the question has been thoughtfully written to limit overly broad probing language that might dissuade health professionals from seeking treatment and reporting their conditions.

The Board understands that medical or mental health treatment is a normal part of many people's lives and receiving treatment such as counseling or therapy does not alone disqualify a licensee.  However, the Board is obligated to determine whether a licensee is physically and mentally fit to practice and, therefore, must inquire to the extent necessary to make this determination.  While the renewal process does include a question pertaining to impairment, the question has been thoughtfully written to limit overly broad probing language that might dissuade health professionals from seeking treatment and reporting their conditions.