Delivery Destinations
If the IV team did not document the delivery location, these sources can help determine where the medication should be sent.
What are Consolidated Notes for the IV team’s referral-stage note, previous orders, or images?
These three factors determine the shipping mode for a medication.
What are refrigeration needs, delivery destination, and arrival time?
These destination types require Priority Overnight shipping.
What are places of business, such as an MDO, hospital, or work address?
These types of drugs always require a signature.
What are Hepatitis C drugs and controlled substances, including testosterone, Viberzi, Epidiolex, and Sublocade?
A dispensing pharmacy needs at least this much time to fulfill a refrigerated-drug order.
What is at least two business days?
These three drug routes should be delivered to an MDO.
What are intramuscular injections, intravenous drugs, and antipsychotics?
These are the standard ship modes for refrigerated and non-refrigerated medications.
What are refrigerated medications shipping overnight and non-refrigerated medications shipping 2nd Day Air?
2nd Day Air Express deliveries arrive by this time.
What is by 12 p.m.?
These delivery destinations require a signature regardless of refrigeration needs.
What are MDOs and other sites of care, places of business, and NYC apartments without a doorperson?
A dispensing pharmacy needs at least this much time to fulfill a non-refrigerated-drug order.
What is at least three business days?
An MDO, work address, or FedEx hub is this type of destination, requiring delivery during regular business hours.
What is a place of business, with delivery during regular business hours, 8 a.m.–5 p.m.?
Residential addresses require these two shipping modes, depending on refrigeration needs.
What are Standard Overnight and 2nd Day Air?
Standard Overnight deliveries arrive by this time.
What is by 8 p.m.?
These medications must always use one of the FedEx options.
What are all Hepatitis C medications?
Paper claims must be verified this often.
What is every month?
A group home is usually classified as this type of delivery location.
What is residential?
This FedEx mode is used for a non-refrigerated medication sent to a place of business.
What is FedEx 2nd Day Air Express?
A refrigerated medication should never be scheduled for delivery on this day because the ice may melt and make it unusable.
What is Monday, because the ice may melt and make the medication unusable?
These two shipping methods are used for home delivery based on whether the medication is refrigerated or non-refrigerated.
What are Standard Overnight for refrigerated home orders and FedEx 2nd Day Air for non-refrigerated home orders?
These two locations show whether benefits have been verified for the month.
What are IV notes and the Benefits Verification subtab under the Insurance tab?
This is the difference between a delivery destination and a shipping mode.
What is the distinction that destination is the location type, while shipping mode is the delivery timing?
This FedEx mode is used for a non-refrigerated medication sent to a residence.
What is FedEx 2nd Day Air?
Dispensing pharmacies set same-day delivery cutoff times for this operational reason.
Why does the pharmacy need enough time to fill the order before the courier arrives?
This is why a dispensing pharmacy may be given more than the minimum fulfillment time.
Why is extra time beneficial because it reduces strain and lets the pharmacy prioritize urgent orders when the patient has enough medication on hand?
These plan types do not permit test-claim processing.
DAILY DOUBLE: What are all major medical plans, some Independent Physicians Associations, and some state Medicaid plans?