New Jersey Administrative Code
Title 10 - HUMAN SERVICES
Chapter 51 - PHARMACEUTICAL SERVICES MANUAL
Subchapter 1 - PHARMACEUTICAL SERVICES
Section 10:51-1.17 - Telephone-rendered original prescriptions
Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 18, September 16, 2024
(a) Telephone orders from prescribers for original prescriptions shall be permitted in accordance with all applicable Federal and State laws, rules and regulations.
(b) For purposes of reimbursement, telephone authorization to refill an original prescription with no refill remaining is considered a new order and requires a new written prescription with a new prescription number. Stamping or writing a new number on the original prescription order does not constitute a new prescription under the Medicaid or NJ FamilyCare programs.
(c) When a prescriber chooses not to allow product interchange on a telephone order, the statement "Substitution not permitted by prescriber-telephone Rx" plus the pharmacist's full signature next to or below the statement, shall appear on the prescription order. A rubber stamp bearing the statement is acceptable.
(d) When a prescriber chooses to certify "Brand Medically Necessary" on a telephoned prescription for a product included on the Federal MAC list, a written signed prescription order containing the certification, shall be sent to the pharmacist within seven days of the date of the telephone order. The written prescription shall be retained by the pharmacist as the original prescription. Failure to comply will result in the payment for that prescription being reduced to the MAC reimbursement level.
