Open Dental Forum

How is this being handled by others? I thought I saw the other day April 1st was the day this went into effect.

Isn't that only for medicaid patients? I just don't see any medicaid

Seriously though, I thought the term "tamperproof" was open to interpretation. A computer printout could be considered tamperproof when compared to a written prescription.

Required or not I think it is a good idea. We had a couple of people in our area that were getting scripts for pain meds and altering the # and refills. I now call in all my pain meds. We have a responsibility to do what we can and using alter-proof paper is a small price to pay.

steve

It's required here in California. Pads are only available through "authorized" companies.
However, everyone seems to be an "authorized" source these days.

Cheers!!

In NY we must use security Rx pads.
Each script has an individual identifier.
This includes a root id made up of a few letters and #'s followed by 2 or 3 sequentional #'s on the end.

Would it be difficult to include an ID box in the OD Rx section.
Once we enter the 'root ID', the program would automatically add the next consecutive # on each Rx we write.

For now we still need to use longhand on these pads
but having 'auto entry' like this would make it easier to enter and record the information in OD.

Also, it would alert the Doctor to any missing Rx's
if the next # in OD is out of sequence and different than the one on his/her pad!

At some point I see needing a data base for these things..
in the event we ever are called apon to show a record of all our scripts.