Prescription Drug Monitoring Program

Direct Database Access

The ND Prescription Drug Monitoring Program would like to invite all Prescribers and Pharmacists seeing North Dakota residents to take part in direct access to your patients’ controlled substance prescription history.

The NDPDMP is a program that collects prescription data on all controlled substances, schedules II-V, Carisoprodol products (e.g. Soma®) and Tramadol products (e.g. Ultram®) directly from the dispensers. The data is housed in a high-security database.

With direct access there is no waiting for office hours to process your own request. You will be given direct access to the database and are able to access it 24/7, with an assigned login. At your request, a registered nurse/pharmacy technician will be allowed to access the confidential data on your behalf. They will be required to fill out a Delegate application and will be assigned their own login.

Before you request a profile history on a patient, that patient must have an appointment to see you or already be in your care. If you have any questions, please contact the ND Board of Pharmacy, Prescription Drug Monitoring Program (NDPDMP) at 701-328-9537.

It takes approximately 1-7 days from the date a prescription is dispensed until it appears in a report due to software conversion. This is much faster than other state programs. Some can wait up to 6 weeks for information to show on a report. The best way to see if your recently written prescription was dispensed or to find out if the patient filled recently is to contact the dispenser directly.

Reports should be used to supplement a patient evaluation, to confirm a patient’s drug history, or document compliance with a therapeutic regimen. A report can provide a patient’s controlled substance history as far back as January 1st of 2007. Prescription history will be stored for 3 years before being removed from the system.

The NDPDMP does not warrant any report to be accurate or complete. The Report is based on the search criteria you entered and the data submitted from the dispensing pharmacy. For more information about any prescription in an NDPDMP report or to verify a prescription, contact the dispenser.

Before your application is processed, all online account requestors are required by the ND Prescription Drug Monitoring Program to take a training course. Follow the instructions below or contact the office at 701-328-9537.

To receive access to the Prescription Drug Monitoring Program:

1. Fill out the Applications & Agreements (most of the fields are fillable online) 3. Complete the Online Training Course Click Here to Register/Login You can register and take the course while your application is being processed or you wait for your application to be processed and login will be emailed to you. If you’ve sent in your application(s) and agreements, we’ll sign you up for the course and send an email with details on how to login and take the course. If you haven’t sent in your application and want to register on your own training account, please use Enrollment Code NDBP. Once you’ve registered and logged in to your training course, click on the following items to navigate to your course. Elective Catalog, Register, Confirm, Close, Assignments, Details and then Start Course. 2. Print, Notarize, Sign, and Mail the Forms to: ND Board of Pharmacy, PDMP 1906 E. Broadway Ave. Bismarck, ND 58501

The NDPDMP will notify you after verifying your application information via the email address you provided on the form(s). This may take several weeks to process. At any point you are welcome to call our office to verify that your application is being processed.

To contact the office about your application, please feel free to call us at 701-328-9537 or send an email to ndbophpdmp@btinet.net.

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