# Center-held registration

A term used when buying urgent care center.

The center's own [controlled-substance registration](https://searchspheresource.com/glossary/dea-registration), held by the entity and not by its doctors.

A center that only writes prescriptions leans on the individual registrations its physicians hold. One that stocks and hands out controlled substances on site is a dispenser in its own right, and the federal schedule of business activities lists the hospital or clinic beside the practitioner and the retail pharmacy as a registrant class of its own. Which one the center holds decides who answers for the storage, the records and the count, and it decides what happens when a physician leaves, because an entity registration survives a departure and a personal one walks out with its holder. Establish which is actually on file, then ask to see the inventory records and the dispensing log for anything kept on site. A center dispensing against a physician's personal registration is a finding, not a filing detail.

Part of: Buying an Urgent Care Center (https://searchspheresource.com/guides/buying-an-urgent-care-center)

Source: https://searchspheresource.com/guides/buying-an-urgent-care-center/terms/center-held-registration
Not dated: The same editorial definitions as the glossary, inside a trade.

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