Many pharmacies have been receiving faxes from MedImpact informing them that they will be required to transmit the Rx Origin starting January, 2010. After this update (August 2009) you will see the field in the FILL screen at line 43.

We do our best to default to the correct value for this field. However there are some situations where we do not know the correct origin. If you go straight from the menu into the FILL screen, we will default to the origin of the scrip being hand written. If you go into the FILL screen by going to the SureScripts Queue and hitting F to Fill the scrip, we will default to the origin being Electronic. The two situations we do not know about are call-in scrips and faxed scrips.

By default, to change the Rx Origin field you can cash the scrip out and at the point of putting in your initials, go up to line 43 and make the change. Then you are able to transmit the scrip with the new origin. We have added two different ways for this to be more convenient.

The first is on a 3pi vendor by vendor setup. Since only certain vendors are going to want this you can set QuickSCRIP to only ask you for the Rx Origin on those vendors. To set this up, pull up the 3PI in Insurance Vendor File Maintenance. In line 20, add /OR to the end of whatever is already in that line.

The second is to ask on EVERY prescription. This will turn the line 43 into a normal field in the filling process and cause you to hit enter to get through the field. To turn this on, go to your Pharmacy Main Menu, choose 3. Utilities, then choose 3. Business/Control File Maint., then 5. Additional Rx Custom Screen #2. You will need to set line 35. Get Rx Origin? to something other than N. The options are:
If "Y", QuickSCRIP will ask you for the Rx Origin every time that you fill a new scrip. IF "R", then will also ask for the Rx Origin on renumbered scrips. "Y" and "R" will default to "W"ritten. "Z" is the same as "Y" with no default. "S" is the same as "R" with no default.

The only insurance that we know of that is currently accepting the Rx Origin as of August 2009 is North Carolina Medicaid. If your store is in North Carolina and you are not already sending the Origin, you will be as soon as you run this quarterly update.

If you are needing to go back and look at the origin or change it for some reason, first pull up the scrip in the Rx Edit screen. There is not a field on the screen but if you type OR and hit Enter it will ask you the question to set the Origin. When the question appears, the option that is set as the default (between the '[ ]') is what the prescription was originally set as.

If you have any questions about this or need help setting it up, please give us a call.