AHIP Exam AHM-510 Topic 1 Question 29 Discussion

The Nonprofit Institutions Act allows the Neighbor Hospital, a not-for-profit hospital, to purchase at a discount drugs for its 'own use'. Consider whether the following sales of drugs were not for Neighbor's own use and therefore were subject to antitrust enforcement:

Elijah Jamison, a former patient of Neighbor, renewed a prescription that was originally dispensed when he was discharged from Neighbor.

Neighbor filled a prescription for Camille Raynaud, who has no connection to Neighbor other than that her prescribing physician is located in a nearby physician's office building.

Neighbor filled a prescription for Nigel Dixon, who is a friend of a Neighbor medical staff member.

With respect to the United States Supreme Court's definition of 'own use,' the drug sales that were not for Neighbor's own use were the sales that Neighbor made to