To modify provisions relating to required experience or certification for prescribing or dispensing certain drugs, and for other purposes.

1. 1

   Change 1: Rewrites section 505(o)(6)(C)(i)

   ReplacesSection 505(o)(6)(C)(i) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act

   Removes section 505(o)(6)(C)(i).

   Inserted: (i) health care providers who prescribe the drug have particular training or experience, or are specially certified (which training or certification with respect to the drug shall be available to any willing provider from a frontier area in a widely available training or certification method (including an on-line course or via mail) as approved by the Secretary at minimal cost to the provider);

   Original wording

   Strike section 505(o)(6)(C)(i) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, as added by this Act, and insert the following:

2. 2

   Change 2: Inserts “The Secretary shall promulgate regulations for how a physician may provide the drug under…” at the end of section 505(o)(6)(F) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act

   Inserts

   Inserted: The Secretary shall promulgate regulations for how a physician may provide the drug under the mechanisms of section 561.

   Original wording

   Add at the end of section 505(o)(6)(F) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, as added by this Act, the following: “The Secretary shall promulgate regulations for how a physician may provide the drug under the mechanisms of section 561.”.

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