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Medicare
Prescription
Discount Cards:
Understanding What Lies Ahead
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read through the following information and click continue.
ACPE
Universal Program Number: 207-000-04-059-H03
Release Date: March 22, 2004
Expiration Date: March 22, 2007
Description
Learn about the new Medicare Discount Cards, which will soon
be in the hands of your patients. This activity will walk you through
the basics of new Medicare Law and teach you how to enroll patients
in the Community Care RxSM Medicare Discount Card. Please
note – this program is intended for pharmacists, technicians, and
other pharmacy staff. This presentation is not intended for and should
not be shown to Medicare beneficiaries.
Learning
Objectives
Upon
completion of this activity, participants should be better able to:
- Know how many Medicare-endorsed Drug Discount Cards a Medicare-eligible patient may have at a single time.
- Describe the timeline for the implementation of the Medicare-endorsed Drug Discount Cards.
- Be able to determine if a Medicare-eligible patient will qualify to Transitional Assistance (TA).
Target
Audience
Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians
A score of 70 percent is required to successfully complete the CE quiz. You will have three opportunities to achieve a passing score.
The Statement of Credit should be printed upon receipt; a duplicate copy will be available in the participant's online transcript for further viewing. Individuals must complete this program by March 22, 2007 to receive credit.
NCPA
is approved by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education as a provider
of continuing pharmacy education. This program will provide 1 contact
hour (0.1 CEUs) of continuing pharmacy education credit under the number
207-000-04-059-H03.
Faculty Information
Scott Pace, Pharm.D. is
the Associate Director of Professional Affairs at the National Community
Pharmacists Association in Alexandria, Virginia.
Faculty
Disclosure Statements
NCPA has a conflict of interest policy that requires course
faculty to disclose any real or apparent commercial financial affiliations
related to the content of their presentations/materials.
Software
Requirements
| PC Windows 98 SE or above Internet Explorer 4.0 or above Netscape 4.0 or above 800 x 600 Minimum Monitor Resolution *Adobe Acrobat Reader |
MAC |
| *REQUIRED TO VIEW PRINTABLE VERSION OF CE LESSON | |
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