139A.41 - CHLAMYDIA AND GONORRHEA TREATMENT.
139A.41 CHLAMYDIA AND GONORRHEA TREATMENT.
Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, a
physician, physician assistant, or advanced registered nurse
practitioner who diagnoses a sexually transmitted chlamydia or
gonorrhea infection in an individual patient may prescribe, dispense,
furnish, or otherwise provide prescription oral antibiotic drugs to
that patient's sexual partner or partners without examination of that
patient's partner or partners. If the infected individual patient is
unwilling or unable to deliver such prescription drugs to a sexual
partner or partners, a physician, physician assistant, or advanced
registered nurse practitioner may dispense, furnish, or otherwise
provide the prescription drugs to the department or local disease
prevention investigation staff for delivery to the partner or
partners. Section History: Recent Form
2008 Acts, ch 1058, §12