Deadline approaching for tamper-resistant prescription pads

Beginning April 1, 2008, prescriptions for millions of Medicaid patients will have to be written on a tamper-resistant pad as required by a provision in a spending bill for Iraq.  The Centers for Medicine & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued guidance on August 17, 2007, on the provision that’s included in section 7002(b) of the US Troop Readiness, Veteran’s Care, Katrina Recover, and Iraq Accountability Appropriations Act of 2007, which was adopted on May 25, 2007.  This rule focuses on all written prescriptions submitted for payment through the Vendor Drug Program but will not apply to prescription orders sent to a pharmacy electronically or by telephone or fax.  This rule doesn’t apply when a managed care entity pays for the prescription or in most situations when drugs are provided in certain institutional and clinical facilities.

 To be in compliance with the CMS guidelines on April 1, 2008, the pad must be considered tamper resistant by containing at least one of the following three characteristics:

Effective on October 1, 2008, all three of the above characteristics are required by federal law. 

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ALL SECURE RX PRODUCTS MEET ALL THREE OF THE CMS REQUIREMENTS!