Texas APRN/PA Controlled-Substance Delegation Check (Occ. Code 157.0511)
Whether a Texas physician may delegate this controlled-substance prescription to an APRN or physician assistant.
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
- Setting
- Clinic, office, or other outpatient practice
- Days covered, including refills
- 30
- Is this a refill
- No
- Patient younger than 2
- No
Result: Schedule II cannot be delegated in a clinic or office, however short the supply.
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What you enter
- Schedule
- Setting
- Days covered, including refills
- Is this a refill
- Delegating physician consulted on the refill
- Patient younger than 2
- Delegating physician consulted (child under 2)
- Medical-staff policy for Schedule II delegation (hospital)
How this is calculated
Tex. Occupations Code 157.0511 (Acts 2013, 83rd Leg., S.B. 406). Read the source ↗
A reference and educational tool. Not medical, legal, or financial advice, and not a substitute for clinician judgment.