How do hospitals separate 340B discharge prescriptions from inpatient drug use?

Hospitals must document patient status at each step—when a drug was ordered, administered, prescribed, and dispensed—to distinguish inpatient use from a later eligible outpatient prescription. The article explains that discharge is not a magic switch, so split-billing, EHR records, and replenishment logic must clearly separate inpatient administrations from outpatient dispensing events.