Own-name registration

Definition

The buyer's own controlled-substance certificate, which the seller's cannot be signed over to.

Why It Matters

A dental practice prescribes, so it needs a registrant, and the registrant is a person and not the business. No one required to be registered may engage in the activity until the application is granted and a certificate issues to that person, and a separate registration is required at each principal place of professional practice. The seller's registration cannot be assigned or otherwise transferred except on conditions the agency specifically designates and then only by written consent, and it terminates on its own when the seller discontinues practice. So the day the seller stops is the day the practice loses its prescribing authority unless the buyer's certificate has already issued. Apply early enough that the two dates overlap, and ask what the practice does for a patient in the middle of treatment if they do not.