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Achieving Better Care by Monitoring All Prescriptions (ABC-MAP) Act 191 of 2014 Board Meeting April 8, 2015 ABC-MAP Board Meeting • Agenda Prescription Drug Monitoring Background ABC-MAP Overview Board Responsibilities Reporting Prescription Drug Monitoring • Prescription Drug Monitoring Background Programs are statewide electronic databases that gather information about the prescribing and dispensing of controlled substances Prescription Drug Monitoring Uses: Improve the quality of patient care by providing prescribers and dispensers access to information about all controlled substances dispensed to a patient. Aid regulatory and law enforcement agencies in the detection and prevention of fraud, drug abuse and criminal diversion of controlled drugs. Prescription Drug Monitoring STATUS OF PRESCRIPTION MONITORING PROGRAMS California is credited with operation of the first monitoring program in 1939. Seventy-six years later, 49 states and D.C. have passed statutes establishing a PDMP. As of December 2014, 49 programs are collecting prescription data and providing authorized users access to that information. The District of Columbia is in the process of adopting regulations, and Missouri has several bills pending in the state legislature that would enact a PDMP. Prescription Drug Monitoring INTERSTATE SHARING OF PRESCRIPTION MONITORING PROGRAM DATA In 2014, Oklahoma became the 45th state to allow interstate sharing of prescription monitoring program information. Pennsylvania will become the 46th state on June 30, 2015. Prescription Drug Monitoring Currently, Pennsylvania has a PDMP in the Office of Attorney General that collects Schedule II drug in