T3: IPC Final New Stuff Flashcards
What are the steps to resolve TPRs?
- Rx accepted/entered at your pharmacy
- Insurance company returns a rejection in real time
- Inform the patient/caregiver
- Notify prescriber and provide guidance for next steps
- Communicate outcome to patient/caregiver
What needs to be provided by the prescriber to resolve a prior authorization rejection?
Documentation
What are the characteristics of a prior authorization rejection?
- May take several days to resolve
- No guaranteed approvals
- May have higher copay
- Communication with prescriber via fax, phone, e-message
- Communicate with patient/caregiver via preferred method
What is a third party payer?
An organization that reimburses a pharmacy or patient for all or part of the patient’s prescription drug costs
What is a private third party payer?
- Insurance company
- May be a manufacturer or other discount programs
What is public third party payer?
Government entities that pay for prescriptions through a government program (Medicaid)
What is medicaid?
Funded jointly by federal and state the governments with each state determining its own prescription drug reimbursement rates
What is medicare?
Government program that provides health insurance for the elderly and disabled, implemented a voluntary Medicare Part D program in 2006
What are the types of third party payers?
- Private
- Public
What is a PBM?
Hired by third parties to provide prescription claims processing and other services
What is the number for poison control?
800-222-1222
What are examples of safe medication practices?
- Be proactive
- Minimize distractions
- Store drugs properly
- Throughly check all prescriptions
- Provide patient counseling
- Repeat and verify phone prescriptions
- Develop positive ways of managing stress
- Organize the workplace and develop routines
- Watch zeros and abbreviations
- Clarify any uncertainties or doubts
How can we be proactive?
- Create a culture of safety
- Report great catches and near misses
How should we patient counsel?
- Show and tell method
- IHS questions
How much of errors are discovered during patient counseling?
83%
How should we repeat and verify phone prescriptions?
Repeat back each piece of information and place a check mark next to that information
How should we organize the workplace and develop routines?
This includes the space, environment, and workflow
How should we clarify any uncertainties and doubts?
Don’t guess
Where do we reports for voluntary practitioner/med errors?
MERP (medication error)
Where do we report vaccines?
VERP
Where can consumers report errors?
C-MERP
What is ISMP?
Used to report med errors
1. MERP
2. VERP
3. C-MERP
What is FDA MedWatch?
Used to report errors and adrs
Online voluntary reporting for health professionals, consumers, and patients
What do you report to the FDA MedWatch?
- Unexpected side effects or adverse events
- Product quality problems
- Product use/medication errors that can be prevented
- Therapeutic failures
How should you report Vaccine adrs?
VAERS
What is VAERS?
- Anyone can submit reports
- Professionals are encouraged to report admin errors and any ADRs that occur after admin whether or not it is clearly vaccine related
What are healthcare professional required to report by law?
- Any adverse event listed in the VAERS table of reportable events following vaccination
- Any adverse event listed by the manufacturer as a contraindication to further doses
What are the common causes of pharmacist errors?
- Prescribing/ordering errors
- Dispensing errors
- Admin errors