Monday, August 23, 2010

What are Unverified Medications?

What are unverified medications?  What do we do with them?

"Unverified" medications come into our system from RxHub for the previous 6 months.  It is a form of medication history that comes from the patient's insurance in addition to information provided by the patient.  They show up in the medication list under the heading Unverified like this:

While you are reviewing medications the patient is taking with the patient, these unverified medications need to be verified as appropriate.  Treat them like medication history.  To verify the medication, right click on the medication and click on Verify and Add.  Your options at that point are:

Choose either Active, D/C or Complete as clinically appropriate to add the medication to the patient's Active Medications or Past Medications.  If the patient reports that they have never taken this medication, they will need to contact their insurance company for this to be completely removed from their record.

Once you have verified all medications, you will be able to reconcile the medication list by right clicking on any medication and choosing List Reconciled.  You will not be able to reconcile the list until all Unverified Medications are verified.

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