Electronic Prescription Program. PDP sponsors and entities offering an MA Rx or EFFS Rx plan would be required, effective January 1, 2007, to have in place an electronic prescription program. The program would have to be consistent with national standards developed by the Administrator. The program would be required to provide for electronic transmittal of prescriptions (except in emergencies and exceptional cases). It would also have to provide for the electronic transmittal of information to the prescribing health professional of information that included: 1) information (to the extent available and feasible) on the drugs being prescribed for that patient and other information relating to the medical history or condition of the patient that may be relevant to the appropriate prescription for the patient; 2) cost-effective alternatives (if any) for the prescribed drug; and 3) information on drugs included in the applicable formulary. To the extent feasible, the program would permit the prescribing health professional to provide, and be provided, information on an interactive real time basis. 1) the range of available computerized prescribing software and hardware and their costs to develop and implement; 2) the extent to which such standards and systems could be readily implemented by physicians, pharmacies, and hospitals; 3) efforts to develop uniform standards and a common software platform for the secure electronic communication of medication history, eligibility, benefit, and prescription information; 4) efforts to develop and promote universal connectivity and interoperability for the secure electronic exchange of such information; 5) the cost of implementing such systems; 6) implementation issues as they relate to the administrative simplification provisions of Title XI and current Federal and State prescribing laws and regulations and their impact on implementation of computerized prescribing. The Administrator would constitute the task force by April 1, 2004; it would submit recommendations to the Administrator by January 1, 2005. The Administrator would provide for the development and promulgation of national standards by January 1, 2006. The standards would be issued by a standards organization accredited by the American National Standards Institute and be compatible with administrative simplification standards.
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Samples: Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003, Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003, Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003
