Archive for March 2008
Medicaid Prescriptions Must Be written on tamper resistant pads.
Posted on Tuesday, March 18, 2008 at 11:53 AM by Editor
As of April 1 2008, to save CMS money and protect patients, prescriptions for patients must be on tamper resistant pads. According to the CMS website:At least one of the three tamper-resistant characteristics is required on April 1, 2008. All three characteristics are required on October 1, 2008. For the first, a prescription must contain at least one of the three tamper-resistant characteristics in order to be considered "tamper resistant." For the second, prescriptions must contain all three characteristics.
Frequently Asked Questions On Tamper Pads
To be considered tamper resistant on October 1, 2007, a prescription pad must contain at least one of the following three characteristics:
1) one or more industry-recognized features designed to prevent unauthorized copying of a completed or blank prescription form;
2) one or more industry-recognized features designed to prevent the erasure or modification of information written on the prescription by the prescriber;
3) one or more industry-recognized features designed to prevent the use of counterfeit prescription forms.
Edited on: Monday, April 07, 2008 12:19 PM