Please review documents for information regarding issues related to practice during COVID-19 crisis.
Link to Governor's website; Executive Orders
COVID-19 Guidance for Practice, Continuing Education and License Application and Renewal
Our Mission
To protect the health, safety and welfare of Arizona citizens by regulating and achieving the highest standards in the optometry profession.
What We Do
The Board examines, licenses, and regulates the profession of Optometric Doctors (O.D.) in the state of Arizona, as well as regulates out-of-state contact lens dispensers.
The Arizona State Board of Optometry (“Board”) website linked to optometry.az.gov (“website”) is the official website of the agency for providing license lookup and license verification information. The website receives and hosts the information directly from the Board database in an electronic manner protected from alteration by unauthorized individuals.
Consistent with JCAHO, NCQA, and other standards for primary source verification, the site is considered a primary source for Board data and is the same information the agency provides through other means such as its IVR system at 602-542-3095, fax, mail or e-mail and is true and complete to the best of our knowledge. The information is updated daily at 4:30 p.m. and the date of the most recent update is provided at the bottom of each directory page.
CSPMP-Controlled Substance Prescription Monitoring Program-UPDATED 1/22/2020
Current Licensees holding a DEA number only!! If you do not have a DEA number, you do not need to register for the program at this time.
For licensees holding a current DEA number, participation in the CSPMP is mandatory pursuant to A.R.S. 36-2702.
PAPER FORMS ARE NO LONGER ACCEPTED; YOU MUST REGISTER ELECTRONICALLY.
Click the link below to register.
1/29/2020 SECOND UPDATE
EPCS and the CSPMP are two different things.
Here are a couple of things to remember regarding the CSPMP:
To use the CSPMP, the prescriber must have an account.
The CSPMP account has nothing to do with being EPCS enabled.
Those already using CSPMP accounts need to do nothing.
Those needing to register for use of the CSPMP should watch the short tutorial video at https://pharmacy.az.gov/node/5168.
Electronic Prescribing (EPCS).
The Board of Pharmacy cannot help get a prescriber set up; the prescriber must find an EPCS vendor.
EPCS is what allows a prescriber to send any controlled substance prescription to a pharmacy. (Even though all controlled substances can be sent electronically, the law only mandates that Schedule II opioids are sent to the pharmacy by way of EPCS.)
Questions about how to get set up for EPCS can be directed to Health Current, the State's Health Information Exchange. The link is https://healthcurrent.org/information-center/controlled-substances/.
1/22/2020 UPDATE
Over the initial few weeks of the Electronic Prescribing of Controlled Substances (EPCS) mandate, the Board of Pharmacy has been fielding many calls from prescribers, pharmacists, and patients throughout the state. The Board of Pharmacy has no statutory ability to grant waivers to the mandate in 2020.
To help the health care practitioner community, the Pharmacy Board has created EPCS FAQs as well as a short 11-minute tutorial video that should help answer any lingering questions.
Video link: https://youtu.be/ol206wj4LLY
EPCS FAQs: https://pharmacypmp.az.gov/faqs
If you aren't set up yet, contact: Health Current: https://healthcurrent.org/information-center/controlled-substances/
OPIOID CE REQUIRED FOR LICENSURE RENEWAL (FOR DEA LICENSE HOLDERS ONLY)
ATTENTION CURRENT LICENSEES (reposted 11/15/18)
SB1001 was passed during a special session of the Legislature called by Gov. Ducey this past January. The Bill requires all health care professionals who are authorized to prescribe controlled substances AND WHO HOLD A CURRENT/ACTIVE DEA LICENSE to complete a minimum of three (3) hours of opioid related continuing education each license renewal cycle. (Those licensees who do not have a DEA license DO NOT need to meet this requirement.)
The new law is effective April 26, 2018; the law also applies to any person in a medical degree program that will eventually permit them to obtain a DEA number and prescribe controlled substances, so there may be a change to the current curriculum for students in the Optometry Program at Midwestern University in order to meet the provisions of the law.
Currently, The Arizona State Board of Optometry is amending rules to comply with this new law; rules are expected to be approved December 4, 2018.
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