{"data":{"id":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-63-63-1-522.1","jurisdiction":"us-ok","citation":"Okla. Stat. tit. 63, § 63-1-522.1","heading":"Expedited partner therapy","body":"A. “Expedited partner therapy” means to prescribe, administer,\n\ndispense, or otherwise provide antimicrobial drugs to a sexual\n\npartner of a patient clinically diagnosed by a health care provider\n\nas infected with a sexually transmitted infection without a physical\n\nexamination of such sexual partner, shall not apply to any sexually\n\ntransmitted infection that could be chronic or require multiple\n\ntreatment courses.\n\nB. 1. Subject to limitations provided by law or rule including\n\nbut not limited to laws or rules governing scope of practice,\n\nsupervision of health care providers, and delegation of health care\n\nservices, a health care provider who clinically diagnosed a patient\n\nwith a sexually transmitted infection may provide expedited partner\n\ntherapy if, in the professional judgment of the health care\n\nprovider, the patient’s sexual partner is unlikely or unable to\n\npresent for examination, testing, and treatment.\n\n2. A health care provider who provides expedited partner\n\ntherapy shall provide counseling to the patient, including\n\ndistributing written materials developed and provided by the State\n\nDepartment of Health to be given by the patient to the patient’s\n\nsexual partner.\n\n3. A health care provider shall use expedited partner therapy\n\nonly for a patient’s sexual partner who may have been exposed to a\n\nsexually transmitted infection and who is able to be contacted and\n\nidentified by the patient.\n\nC. 1. No health care provider or pharmacist shall be liable\n\nfor civil damages resulting from any act or omission in good-faith\n\ncompliance with the provisions of this section, including civil\n\ndamages for refusing to provide expedited partner therapy, other\n\nthan an act or omission constituting gross negligence or willful or\n\nwanton misconduct.\n\n2. No health care provider or pharmacist shall be subject to\n\ndisciplinary action by the provider’s or pharmacist’s licensing\n\nboard on the basis of an act or omission in good-faith compliance\n\nwith the provisions of this section, other than an act or omission\n\nconstituting gross negligence or willful or wanton misconduct.\n\nD. The Department shall include the following information in\n\nwritten materials developed and provided for distribution as\n\nrequired by paragraph 2 of subsection B of this section:\n\n1. A warning that a woman who is pregnant or might be pregnant\n\nshould not take certain antibiotics and should immediately contact a\n\nhealth care provider for an examination;\n\n2. Information about the antimicrobial drug and dosage provided\n\nor prescribed, including a warning that a sexual partner who has a\n\nhistory of allergy to the drug or the pharmaceutical class of drug\n\nshould not take the drug and should immediately contact a health\n\ncare provider for examination;\n\n3. Information about the treatment and prevention of sexually\n\ntransmitted infections;\n\n4. The requirement of sexual abstinence until a period of time\n\nafter treatment to prevent infecting other sexual partners;\n\n5. Notification of the importance of the sexual partners\n\nreceiving examination and testing for human immunodeficiency virus\n\nand other sexually transmitted infections and information about\n\navailable resources;\n\n6. Notification of the risk to the patient, the patient’s\n\nsexual partner, and the general public if the sexually transmitted\n\ninfection is not completely and successfully treated;\n\n7. The responsibility of the sexual partner to inform the\n\nsexual partner’s own sexual partners of the risk of sexually\n\ntransmitted infections and the importance of prompt examination and\n\ntreatment by a health care provider; and\n\n8. Such other information deemed necessary by the State\n\nCommissioner of Health.\n\nE. The State Commissioner of Health, the State Board of Medical\n\nLicensure and Supervision, the State Board of Osteopathic Examiners,\ninform the\n\nsexual partner’s own sexual partners of the risk of sexually\n\ntransmitted infections and the importance of prompt examination and\n\ntreatment by a health care provider; and\n\n8. Such other information deemed necessary by the State\n\nCommissioner of Health.\n\nE. The State Commissioner of Health, the State Board of Medical\n\nLicensure and Supervision, the State Board of Osteopathic Examiners,\n\nthe Oklahoma Board of Nursing, and the State Board of Pharmacy may\n\npromulgate rules as necessary to implement this section.","path":["OK Code","Title 63"],"source_url":"https://www.oklegislature.gov/OK_Statutes/CompleteTitles/os63.pdf","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-14","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T18:32:36Z","sha256":"a5bda7d30783780467ca5a38a3a46ae8e48115489e6d5a767a58819f8c53d0d5","source_id":"us-ok","stale":false,"prev":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-63-63-1-522","next":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-63-63-1-524"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}