Exemptions

California Business and Professions Code Section 688 establishes exceptions to the requirement that health care practitioners issue a prescription as an electronic data transmission prescription, including for a prescriber to register annually with the Board of Pharmacy and state their method of qualification, including:

1. Their practice is located in the area of an emergency or disaster declared by a federal, state, or local government.
2. They issue 100 or fewer prescriptions per calendar year.
3. They are unable to issue electronic data transmission prescriptions due to circumstances beyond their control.

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