May This Controlled-Substance Prescription Be Transferred?
Whether a controlled-substance prescription may be transferred to another pharmacy.
Open the tool → Runs in your browser. Data leaves only if you deliberately send a problem report from the interactive tool.
Example
- Schedule
- Schedule II
- Has it been filled?
- Never filled
- Form of the prescription
- Electronic prescription
- Transferred before?
- Not transferred before
- Does state law allow the transfer?
- State law allows the transfer
Result: The transfer is permitted, once.
The tool opens with these values already filled in. Replace them with your own.
What you enter
- Schedule
- Has it been filled?
- Form of the prescription
- Transferred before?
- Do the two pharmacies share a real-time, online database?
- Does state law allow the transfer?
Full field descriptions
- Do the two pharmacies share a real-time, online database? (refills)
How this is calculated
Citation
21 CFR 1306.08(e) to (i): one transfer of an unfilled electronic prescription between retail pharmacies. 21 CFR 1306.25: one transfer of Schedule III to V refills, or more between pharmacies sharing a real-time online database. 21 CFR 1306.12(a): no Schedule II refills. DEA preamble, 88 FR 48365. Read the sources: 21 CFR 1306.08 ↗, 21 CFR 1306.25 ↗, 88 FR 48365 ↗
A reference and educational tool. Not medical, legal, or financial advice, and not a substitute for clinician judgment.