All sales, deliveries, or other distributions of opiates, as defined in Minnesota Statutes Section, 152.02, Subd. 3-5, made to an MN-located practitioner, pharmacy, hospital, veterinary hospital, or other person permitted to possess controlled substances for administration or dispensing to patients must be reported.
Please note, this includes codeine-containing preparations that are classed as Schedule-III controlled substances in Minnesota, as well as butorphanol and pentazocine.
Per Minnesota Statute Section, 151.066, a "unit means the individual dosage form of the particular drug product that is prescribed to the patient".
"One unit" equals one tablet, capsule, patch, syringe, milliliter, or gram.
The Automation of Reports and Consolidated Orders System (ARCOS) format. Acceptable file extensions are .dat or .txt with a maximum size limitation of 100MB.
Required naming convention:
Suggested naming conventions:
For example: MN_AB9876543_2023.txt
Those defined in MN Stat. 152.02 Subd. 3-5.
Please note, codeine-containing preparations that are classified as Schedule-III controlled substances in Minnesota, as well as butorphanol and pentazocine, must be reported.
If the facility was previously granted an exemption, the facility should have received an exemption approval email or letter. Exemptions do not require annual renewal. However, if your facility is issued a new MN License Number, then re-applying for an exemption is necessary.
If at any point the facility no longer qualifies for an exemption, you must notify the MN Opiate Product Registration Fee Program and report any qualifying transactions or submit a zero report, as applicable.
If any data element submitted does not pass validation, you will be required to resubmit the entire file once you have resolved the errors. The corrected file must be given the SAME name as the original file that was submitted. Additionally, if during the final processing of the data, it is determined there are other issues with the data, you would also be required to resubmit the entire file once the errors have been resolved. Failure to submit the updated file prior to March 1, 2024, may result in being assessed a $500 a day penalty for late reporting.
In order to delete a valid entry that was submitted in error, enter zero for the quantity and resubmit the file using the same file name as the original. Please note, the Action Indicator is not used.
