PHYSCIAN UPDATE

From: http://www.cdphe.state.co.us/hs/medi...ATE.110410.pdf

PHYSCIAN UPDATE:

1. Physician Status:
The Medical Marijuana Registry can only accept recommendations from physicians in good standing. The physician must have an active and unrestricted license to practice medicine in the State of Colorado. If this is not the case, the application will be rejected.

To check on the status of your physician, you can use the following Department of Regulatory Agenciesâ?? website:

https://www.doradls.state.co.us/alison.php

You can search by physicianâ??s name or license number. Check the third column titled â??License Statusâ?

The only License Status accepted by the Medical Marijuana Registry is â??Activeâ? â?? any further limitation such as â??Active with Restrictionsâ? or â??Active with Conditionsâ? will not be accepted.

The License Status of the recommending physician must be â??Activeâ? at the time of signing the physician certification.

2. DEA License:

Due to law change in SB-109, the Medical Marijuana Registry must have a current, valid DEA license from each active, recommending physician in order to process their patientsâ?? medicinal marijuana application. If this is not the case, the application will be rejected.

A physician need only have the valid DEA License on file with the Medical Marijuana Registry, and need not re-supply the license for each applicant.

Upon the expiration of a physicianâ??s DEA License, the Medical Marijuana Registry will then need a copy of the updated, valid DEA License in order to accept applications from physicians.

Physicians may send their DEA licenses by either fax or mail:

FAX*: 303-758-5182

*Please enlarge the license by 200% when faxing so that the DEA License is legible

MAIL: CDPHE
MMR
C/O Rosa
4300 Cherry Creek Dr S
Denver, CO 80246

3. Rejected Applications:

Rejected applications will be returned to the patient; however, the application fee is non-refundable. Patients will be given 60 days to return a corrected application to be processed without any further application fees. If a patient fails to return a corrected application within 60 days, any later filed application must contain a new application fee.

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3. Rejected Applications:

Rejected applications will be returned to the patient; however, the application fee is non-refundable. Patients will be given 60 days to return a corrected application to be processed without any further application fees. If a patient fails to return a corrected application within 60 days, any later filed application must contain a new application fee.

This looks like a reasonable way for those recently rejected for Dr. recommendations to resubmit without repaying the application fee.

Good job digging this info out. It should be passed around to those in need.

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Or they could just follow the constitution because THEY ARE ALRREADY APPROVED.

I really wish someone would fight these asshats.

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Originally Posted by canaguy27

Or they could just follow the constitution because THEY ARE ALRREADY APPROVED.

I really wish someone would fight these asshats.

You are approved until the point where you are denied. I highlighted in bold the part of ARTICLE XVIII - Section 14 of the constitution that applies here.

. A patient who is questioned by any state or local law enforcement official about his or her medical use of marijuana shall provide a copy of the application submitted to the state health agency, including the written documentation and proof of the date of mailing or other transmission of the written documentation for delivery to the state health agency, which shall be accorded the same legal effect as a registry identification card, until such time as the patient receives notice that the application has been denied.

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What about this part:

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(c) Within thirty days of receiving the information referred to in subparagraphs (3) (b) (I)-(IV), the state health agency shall verify medical information contained in the patient's written documentation. The agency shall notify the applicant that his or her application for a registry identification card has been denied if the agency's review of such documentation discloses that: the information required pursuant to paragraph (3) (b) of this section has not been provided or has been falsified; the documentation fails to state that the patient has a debilitating medical condition specified in this section or by state health agency rule; or the physician does not have a license to practice medicine issued by the state of Colorado. Otherwise, not more than five days after verifying such information, the state health agency shall issue one serially numbered registry identification card to the patient, stating:

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(cross-posted to all the other related threads in Colorado subforum)

Pot patients get state reprieve after questions about their docs

Pot patients get state reprieve after questions about their docs - The Denver Post

About 2,000 people who were recently notified that their state applications for medical marijuana were rejected because their doctors weren't eligible to refer them for the drug got a temporary reprieve Wednesday from the state.
Ann Hause, an attorney for the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, said the patients can continue to get marijuana until rules governing which doctors can prescribe marijuana are formalized.
Hause, who appeared Wednesday at a meeting of the Medical Marijuana Advisory Committee, said hearings on the issue likely won't begin until March.
"They are in limbo. I can easily think that people would be confused," said Mark Salley, spokesman for the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment.
The confusion stems from a law passed this year that prohibited doctors not in good standing from recommending patients for medical marijuana. But when the department interpreted that to include doctors with restricted as well as conditional licenses, many doctors objected.
"It improperly punishes a whole host of physicians," Kari Hershey, an attorney for the Colorado Medical Society, told the advisory committee Wednesday.
Hershey said doctors with conditional licenses are allowed to practice medicine under certain conditions.
Dr. Janet Dean said the state does not have a definition of what being a physician in good standing means. One of the doctors blackballed by the state was a neurosurgeon whose practice was limited solely because of a physical disability. There was no reason he couldn't prescribe marijuana, she said.
The state sent letters in late October to the 2,000 patients of 18 doctors initially disqualified to refer them for marijuana based on the department's original interpretation of the new law.
The patients were already legally using marijuana because of a provision that allows them to use their doctor-approved "application" to buy marijuana 35 days after it is signed. The rule was intended to prevent patients from suffering because of a months-long backlog.
The state now has 114,000 medical-marijuana patients, who must renew annually.
The legislature passed the law limiting which doctors can prescribe marijuana after complaints that some doctors were recommending marijuana to virtually any patient who wished to have it, Salley said.

(cross-posted to all the other related threads in Colorado subforum)