Medicare 2006: A Pharmacist’s Reference Guide

As part of its commitment to help provide community pharmacists with tools to prepare their businesses for the Medicare Part D prescription drug benefit, the National Community Pharmacists Association (NCPA) created Medicare 2006: A Pharmacist’s Reference Guide. This guide was written specifically for community pharmacists by pharmacists and provides the tools needed to understand the Medicare prescription drug benefit. It includes an extensive review of Medicare Part D and its implications for pharmacy practice. 

• Comprehensively covers Medicare Part D in plain language written by pharmacists for pharmacists
• Focuses on the specifics of the new prescription drug benefit 
• Discusses enrollment, eligibility, TrOOP, coordination of benefits and much more
• Features a CD-ROM with staff training tools and marketing materials to help community pharmacists reach out to Medicare beneficiaries 

DMEPOS Accreditation Prep Program

The PRS DMEPOS Accreditation Prep Program (DAPP) is a CD-based computer software program containing the necessary standards, policies, procedures, and forms necessary for accreditation. The documents are in MS Word and Excel and can be easily edited to fit your pharmacy operation. Once edited, you can print out your DMEPOS Accreditation Policy and Procedure Manual, customized with your Pharmacy name. A Compliance Guide is included in the Program and will walk you through the process of preparing for the accreditation survey as well as providing strategies and best business practices to incorporate into your DMEPOS compliance program. Other features include a "how to" module on Competitive Bidding and automatic updates when revisions or additions are necessary. DAPP will be your DME Coordinator's preparation guide to accreditation as well as saving you hours creating the necessary policies, procedures, and forms! 

NCPA Employee Policy and Procedures Wizard v3.0

NCPA has made it convenient and easy to customize an Employee Manual for your pharmacy operation. Store policies must be clearly written to identify, avoid and combat prescription drug fraud and abuses in your pharmacy. These can be created by you and incorporated into your pharmacy's policies and procedures manual. If you have multiple stores and/or many employees, it may be advisable to purchase a policies and procedures wizard like the NCPA Employee Manual CD Wizard 3.0 which includes the Medicare Part D Fraud, Waste, & Abuse Compliance Program and Training Manual from PRS Pharmacy Services. The NCPA Employee Manual CD Wizard 3.0 is for pharmacy managers and owners to build an employee manual with policies and procedures specifically for your pharmacy. The CD Wizard will provide the content-it's up to you to decide what fits your business and what does not. It's easy to start your Employee Manual. Simply pop in the CD, select which procedures fit your pharmacy operations and save up to 50 hours of valuable time preparing your policies and procedures. 

Medicare Part D Fraud, Waste, and Abuse Compliance Program

Medicare Part D Fraud, Waste, & Abuse Compliance Program and Training Manual

Medicare Part D Plan Sponsors are focusing on Compliance with the Medicare law, as well as, specific CMS regulations related to this benefit. To do this, Plan Sponsors and subcontractors, such as PBMs will begin to do audits to examine for possible fraud, waste, abuse, and other compliance issues in retail and long term care pharmacies. 

Protect your pharmacy from criminal and civil fines, sanctions, penalties, and even the possibility of losing the ability to fill Medicare/Medicaid prescriptions that are a likely result of non-compliance. Training your employees on fraud, waste, abuse and other compliance issues will stop non-compliance before it starts.