How To Change Address or Name - California Board of Pharmacy

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California Board of Pharmacy - Change Address or Name

Updated July 21, 2026

We often are asked how to submit an address change or name change to the California Board of Pharmacy.

Here's how to do it.  Go to the California Board of Pharmacy website.

On the right side of the page, find "Popular Pages."  Beneath that, follow the "Change of Address/Email/Name" link.

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California Designated Representative Training Courses (drug wholesaler, third-party logistics provider, reverse distributor) - Approved by the California State Board of Pharmacy

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For Designated Representative license applicants  -  Training programs, courses, classes, seminars:

     California (earn a training affidavit):

• CA Designated Representative Wholesaler Training - Available around-the-clock 24 x 7
• CA Designated Representative 3PL Training
• CA Designated Representative Reverse Distributor Training  
• The Designated Representative Institute

     Florida:

• Florida Certified Designated Representative - CDR Laws and Rules Examination Prep Course

For HMDR Exemptee license applicants  -  Training programs, courses, classes, seminars:

     California (earn a training completion certificate):

• CA Home Medical Device Retailer (HMDR) Exemptee Training Course
• The Exemptee Institute

On-Line Change of Address Form - CA Board of Pharmacy

Updated June 12, 2026

The original links broke.

You can still go to the Change of Address form here:

Change of Address/Email/Name for a Personal License:

https://www.pharmacy.ca.gov/about/change_of_address_personal.shtml

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Change of Address Form (online) - California Board of Pharmacy

The following link will take you to a webpage that gives an overview of the California laws and regulations governing Board of Pharmacy address change reporting requirements:

Board of Pharmacy - Technical Help:

"You are required to notify the board of any change in your address within 30 days. Change of address may be made on-line or in writing to the board."

If you are a licensed California Designated Representative, or other affected party, follow this link to the California Board of Pharmacy - On-line Change of Address Form.

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Training program for California Designated Representative (including 3PL) license applicants

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For Designated Representative license applicants  -  Training programs, courses, classes, seminars:

     California (earn a training affidavit):

• CA Designated Representative Wholesaler Training - Available around-the-clock 24 x 7
• CA Designated Representative 3PL Training
• CA Designated Representative Reverse Distributor Training  
• The Designated Representative Institute

     Florida:

• Florida Certified Designated Representative - CDR Laws and Rules Examination Prep Course

For HMDR Exemptee license applicants  -  Training programs, courses, classes, seminars:

     California (earn a training completion certificate):

• CA Home Medical Device Retailer (HMDR) Exemptee Training Course
• The Exemptee Institute

CMS Proposes Capped Rental Rule for DME -- HME Business

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CMS Proposes Capped Rental Rule for DME -- HME Business:

"The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid funding have proposed a rule to rent “routinely purchased” DME items falling under the three-year minimum lifetime requirement and that have allowables of more than $150.

Under the proposed rule, Medicare would only purchase an item outright if its statistics show that the agency purchased the item 75 percent or more of the time during the period of July 1986 through June 1987. If not, those items would be reimbursed on a 13-month capped rental basis."

Follow this link to the proposed rule: Medicare Program: End-Stage Renal Disease Prospective Payment System, Quality Incentive Program, and Durable Medical Equipment, Prosthetics, Orthotics, and Supplies

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For Designated Representative license applicants  -  Training programs, courses, classes, seminars:

     California (earn a training affidavit):

• CA Designated Representative Wholesaler Training - Available around-the-clock 24 x 7
• CA Designated Representative 3PL Training
• CA Designated Representative Reverse Distributor Training  
• The Designated Representative Institute

     Florida:

• Florida Certified Designated Representative - CDR Laws and Rules Examination Prep Course

For HMDR Exemptee license applicants  -  Training programs, courses, classes, seminars:

     California (earn a training completion certificate):

• CA Home Medical Device Retailer (HMDR) Exemptee Training Course
• The Exemptee Institute

Change of Designated Representative-In-Charge - California

Updated July 18, 2020

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When key employees move on or are terminated, there are Designated Representative implications that you need to consider. Read on, as the consequences could invoke disciplinary action.

According to the California Board of Pharmacy Change of PIC/DRIC/RMG/Professional Director webpage:

Change of Designated Representative-in-Charge (DRIC)

"Business and Professions Code Sections 4160(f), states, “A wholesaler shall notify the board in writing, on a form designed by the board, within 30 days of the date when a designated representative-in-charge ceases to act as the designated representative-in-charge, and shall on the same form propose another designated representative or pharmacist to take over as the designated representative-in-charge. The proposed replacement designated representative-in-charge shall be subject to approval by the board. If disapproved, the wholesaler shall propose another replacement within 15 days of the date of disapproval, and shall continue to name proposed replacements until a designated representative-in-charge is approved by the board.”  The DRIC serves as supervisor or manager and is responsible for ensuring the wholesaler’s or veterinary food-animal drug retailer’s compliance with all the state and federal laws and regulations pertaining to practice and the applicable license.

If the DRIC is a pharmacist in the home state of the nonresident wholesaler license, is currently associated with an active nonresident wholesaler license, and has electronic fingerprints on file with the California State Board of Pharmacy, new fingerprints may not be required.  You may request a set of the board fingerprint cards if you do not hold a current California pharmacist license and are not currently associated as a DRIC to a nonresident wholesaler

• Change of Designated Representative-in-Charge Application
• Request Fingerprint Cards "

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Training programs for California Designated Representative license applicants - Earn a training affidavit

For Designated Representative license applicants  -  Training programs, courses, classes, seminars:

     California (earn a training affidavit):

• CA Designated Representative Wholesaler Training - Available around-the-clock 24 x 7
• CA Designated Representative 3PL Training
• CA Designated Representative Reverse Distributor Training  
• The Designated Representative Institute

     Florida:

• Florida Certified Designated Representative - CDR Laws and Rules Examination Prep Course

For HMDR Exemptee license applicants  -  Training programs, courses, classes, seminars:

     California (earn a training completion certificate):

• CA Home Medical Device Retailer (HMDR) Exemptee Training Course
• The Exemptee Institute

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CA Designated Representative Licensee Info

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       Wholesalers | 3PL | Reverse Distributors
• California Board of Pharmacy Designated Representative Training - for 3PL, wholesalers, reverse distributors. Board-approved.

Updated July 19, 2016

The Board's website has been redesigned.  Therefore, the link in the original post has broken; and the related four informational areas have changed and appear in new and different places on the website.

Here's the link to the CA Board of Pharmacy website

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Designated Representative (formerly called Exemptee) - CA Board of Pharmacy Information for Licensees directs you to these four (4) informational areas:

1. Cancellation of Permit 
2. Change of Designated Representative-in-Charge (PDF) 
3. Name/Address Change 
4. Renewal of Permit

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California Board of Pharmacy Designated Representative Training - for 3PL, wholesalers, reverse distributors. Board-approved.

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For Designated Representative license applicants  -  Training programs, courses, classes, seminars:

     California (earn a training affidavit):

• CA Designated Representative Wholesaler Training - Available around-the-clock 24 x 7
• CA Designated Representative 3PL Training
• CA Designated Representative Reverse Distributor Training  
• The Designated Representative Institute

     Florida:

• Florida Certified Designated Representative - CDR Laws and Rules Examination Prep Course

For HMDR Exemptee license applicants  -  Training programs, courses, classes, seminars:

     California (earn a training completion certificate):

• CA Home Medical Device Retailer (HMDR) Exemptee Training Course
• The Exemptee Institute

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FDA Warning - DST Might Create Problems For Medical Equipment

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Updated November 29, 2025:

The original link broke.

You can still read something that's related here:

FDA Concerned About Impact of DST Change on Devices - MDDI

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When I went to work yesterday, under Daylight Savings Time, my meeting times for recurring meeting times in a popular web meeting software application were inconsistently wrong. Now apply the time change problem to medical devices.

The FDA advises in, Advice for Patients: Change in Daylight Saving Time May Affect Your Medical Equipment in an Unpredictable Way:

"If you have any medical equipment that uses, creates or records time information about your diagnosis or treatment and the manufacturer has not updated it, the equipment may not work properly when Daylight Saving Time (DST) starts and ends."

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