AMCNO applauds delay of Medicaid tamper-resistant drug pad mandate

Strong advocacy by the AMCNO and other organizations, in particular the Ohio Pharmacy Association, helped secure a six-month delay of a federal requirement that handwritten Medicaid prescriptions must be written on tamper-resistant prescription pads. Efforts included a letter, signed by the AMCNO president to Congressional representatives urging the passage of legislation to delay the mandate, which originally was to have taken effect Oct. 1. The new deadline for usage of the tamper-resistant drugs pads is April 1, 2008. More information on this issue will be contained in the AMCNO Northern Ohio Physician magazine and our practice management publication “Practice Management Matters.”