Kentucky Revised Statutes Title XVIII. Public Health § 214.430.Expedited partner therapy for sexually transmitted infections

(a) “Dispense” means to deliver a drug or device to an ultimate user or research subject by or pursuant to the lawful order of a practitioner, including the packaging, labeling, or compounding necessary to prepare the substance for that delivery;

(b) “Expedited partner therapy” means the prescribing or dispensing of antibiotic drugs to a practitioner's diagnosed patient's sexual partner or partners for the same disease without examination of that diagnosed patient's partner or partners;

(c) “Legend drug” means any drug defined by the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, as amended, and under which definition its label is required to bear the statement, “Caution: Federal law prohibits dispensing without prescription.”;

(d) “Practitioner” means medical or osteopathic physicians who are licensed under the professional licensing laws of Kentucky to prescribe and administer drugs and devices. “Practitioner” includes advanced practice registered nurses as authorized in KRS 314.011 and 314.042 and physician assistants when administering or prescribing pharmaceutical agents as authorized in KRS 311.858; and

(e) “Prescription” means a written or oral order for a drug or medicine, or combination or mixture of drugs or medicines, or proprietary preparation, that is signed, given, or authorized by a practitioner, and intended for use in the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease in humans.

(a) Adhere to prescribing and dispensing standards for expedited partner therapy pursuant to the current United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Sexually Transmitted Diseases Treatment Guidelines for expedited partner therapy; and

(b) Utilize forms established by the Department for Public Health for patients and their sexual partner or partners explaining expedited partner therapy.