| On May 25th, 2007, legislation H.R. 2206 was signed, requiring that
states not pay pharmacies for prescriptions submitted after October 1,
2007 that do not have at least one of three characteristics designed to
prevent fraud and abuse through the reproduction and/or modification
of prescriptions. Those characteristics, according to a irective from the
Department of Health & Human Services (HHS), Centers for Medicare
and Medicaid Services, dated August 17, 2007, are: |
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One or more industry-recognized features designed to prevent
unauthorized copying of a completed or blank prescription form;
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One or more industry-recognized features designed to prevent the
erasure or modification of information written on the
prescription by the provider; and
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One or more industry-recognized features designed to prevent the
use of counterfeit prescription forms. |
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Further, by October 1, 2008, all three anti-counterfeiting characteristics
must be embedded in all Medicaid papers.
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