New Jersey Administrative Code
Title 10 - HUMAN SERVICES
Chapter 51 - PHARMACEUTICAL SERVICES MANUAL
Subchapter 2 - PHARMACEUTICAL SERVICES TO MEDICAID OR NJ FAMILYCARE FEE-FOR-SERVICES BENEFICIARIES IN A NURSING FACILITY
Section 10:51-2.14 - Prescriptions and in-patient medication orders rendered by telephone or technological devices

(a) Telephone rendered and/or technologically transmitted (for example: Fax) original prescriptions shall be permitted in accordance with all applicable Federal and State laws and regulations.

(b) For purposes of reimbursement, a telephone rendered and/or a technologically transmitted authorization to refill an original prescription is considered a new prescription or in-patient medication order and requires a new prescription number. Stamping or writing a new number on the original prescription or in-patient medication order does not constitute a new prescription under the Medicaid or NJ FamilyCare program.

(c) When a prescriber chooses not to allow product interchange on a telephone rendered original prescription or in-patient medication order, the statement "Substitution not permitted by prescriber-telephoned Rx" plus the pharmacist's full signature next to or below the statement, shall appear on the medication order. A rubber stamp bearing the statement is acceptable.

(d) When a prescriber chooses to certify "Brand Medically Necessary" on a telephone rendered original prescription or in-patient medication order for a product included on the Federal MAC list, a written signed prescription or in-patient medication order containing the certification, shall be sent to the pharmacist within seven days of the date of the telephone order. The written in-patient medication order 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.