Prescription Monitoring Program
ISSUE SUMMARY
In 2006 the KMS House of Delegates adopted Resolution 2006-21, submitted by the Medical Society of Sedgwick County, which directed KMS to work with other organizations to establish a statewide controlled substances prescription monitoring program. That resolution resulted in the introduction and passage of SB 491 in 2008, which established the Kansas Prescription Monitoring Program Act.
The purpose and goal of the prescription monitoring program is to prevent substance abuse and protect the public from diversion of controlled substances. The intent of the monitoring program is to make controlled substances prescription information available to prescribers on-line in order for them to reduce the incidence of drug-seeking individuals, duplicate prescribing, forging of prescriptions, and diversion of controlled substances for fraudulent purposes.
ADOPTED ACTION OR POLICY
KMS reaffirms its support of the statewide controlled substances prescription monitoring program established pursuant to 2008 Substitute for SB 491 (KSA 65-1682 et seq.).
Adopted by the KMS House of Delegates on April 30, 2011.
