Must I Check the Prescription Monitoring Program? (NY, NJ, CA, TX)
Whether a prescription monitoring program check is required first, in New York, New Jersey, California, or Texas.
Open the tool → Runs in your browser. Data leaves only if you deliberately send a problem report from the interactive tool.
Example
- State
- Texas
- Drug class
- Carisoprodol
- Schedule
- Schedule IV
- Setting
- Outpatient or discharge prescription
- First prescription or continuing
- First prescription to this patient
- Days supplied
- 10
- Refills ordered
- No
Result: Texas requires a PMP check before carisoprodol, whatever its schedule.
The tool opens with these values already filled in. Replace them with your own.
What you enter
- State
- Drug class
- Schedule
- Setting
- First prescription or continuing
- Days supplied
- Refills ordered
- For acute or chronic pain (New Jersey)
The other 3 fields
- Within 24 hours of surgery or trauma (New Jersey)
- Buprenorphine (California emergency department)
- Date of the last check (YYYY-MM-DD)
How this is calculated
N.Y. Public Health Law 3343-a(2); N.J.A.C. 13:45A-35.9; Cal. Health & Safety Code 11165.4 (Stats. 2023, ch. 144); Tex. Health & Safety Code 481.0764-481.0765. Read the source ↗
A reference and educational tool. Not medical, legal, or financial advice, and not a substitute for clinician judgment.