Section 12.52.695. Provisions not applicable.

The following activities do not constitute wholesale distribution of prescription drugs for which a wholesale drug distributor license is required by 12 AAC 52.610 - 12 AAC 52.690:  
		(1) intracompany sales, defined as any transaction or transfer between any division, subsidiary, parent, and an affiliated or related company under the common ownership and control of a corporate entity;  
		(2) the purchase or acquisition, by a hospital or other health care entity that is a member of a group purchasing organization, of a drug, for its own use, from the group purchasing organization or from another hospital or health care entity that is a member of the group purchasing organization;  
		(3) the sale, purchase, or trade of a drug or an offer to sell, purchase, or trade a drug by a charitable organization described in 26 U.S.C. 501(c)(3) (Internal Revenue Code of 1954), as amended as of February 6, 1997, to a nonprofit affiliate of the organization to the extent otherwise permitted by the law;  
		(4) the sale, purchase, or trade of a drug or an offer to sell, purchase, or trade a drug among hospitals or other health care entities that are under common control; for purposes of this paragraph, "common control" means the power to direct or cause the direction of the management and policies of a person or an organization, whether by ownership of stock, by voting rights, by contract, or otherwise;  
		(5) any of the following transfers of a drug, if the gross dollar value of the transfer does not exceed five percent of the total prescription drug sales revenue of either the transferor or transferee during any 12-consecutive-month period:  
			(A) the sale of a drug by a retail pharmacy to another retail pharmacy or to a practitioner, or the offer by a retail pharmacy to sell a drug to another retail pharmacy or to a practitioner;  
			(B) the purchase of a drug by a retail pharmacy or by a practitioner from another retail pharmacy, or the offer by a retail pharmacy or by a practitioner to purchase a drug from another retail pharmacy;  
			(C) the trade of a drug by a retail pharmacy with another retail pharmacy, or the offer by a retail pharmacy to trade a drug with another retail pharmacy;  
		(6) the sale, purchase, or trade of a drug, an offer to sell, purchase, or trade a drug, or the dispensing of a drug, under a prescription;  
		(7) the distribution of drug samples by manufacturers' representatives or distributors' representatives; or  
		(8) the sale, purchase, or trade of blood and blood components intended for transfusion.  

Authorities

08.80.005;08.80.030;08.80.157

Notes

Reference

12 AAC 52.995

Authority

AS 08.80.005 AS 08.80.030 AS 08.80.157 ________________________

History

Eff. 1/16/98, Register 145; am 11/16/2012, Register 204