Delay Of Tamper Resistant Prescription Pad Rule Ends April 1, USA
Main Category: Medicare / Medicaid / SCHIPArticle Date: 22 Feb 2008 - 4:00 PDT
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On April 1, 2008, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) regulation requiring the use of tamper resistant prescription pads for Medicaid beneficiaries will go into effect. This date reflects the new requirement was delayed six months after sharp criticism from pharmacists, prescribers and state Medicaid programs.
CMS has also made a several exceptions to the requirement. Prescriptions for hospital inpatients and residents of long-term care facilities will not be subject to the Tamper resistant prescription pads will be required for hospital outpatients and the community retail setting.
CMS has also noted that the use of indelible ink does not meet the requirements set forth in the law. Computer generated prescriptions, including electronic medical record computer generated prescriptions, issued between April 1, 2008 and October 1, 2008, may meet the requirements by containing one or more of the baseline requirements outlined in their August 2007 guidance.
Beginning in October 2008, computer generated prescriptions must include industry-recognized features designed to prevent unauthorized copying of a prescription form, erasure or modification of information written by a prescriber; or use of counterfeit prescription forms.
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Its About Time
posted by Dr. Michelle on 24 Mar 2008 at 12:20 pmThe new Medicaid requirement may not be the most preventative way of preventing fraud in the healthcare industry but it is a huge step in the right direction. Millions of dollars each year are paid out by the government through Medicaid to individuals who truly are just stealing from the general public via fraudulent prescriptions. The drug companies are not on the government’s side, fraud is generating production and sales for them, once measures are put forth to slow up and end this corruption the drug companies will begin to loose sales. What happens then? Do the drug companies hire lobbyists to sway the laws back into their favor? Look at the state of NY – why doesn’t someone write a national publicized article on how much money they have saved in Prescription Fraud in the past 2 years – it will definitely turn heads not only on the government official level, but on the taxpayers, after all aren’t we the one who are paying for this in the end?
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