Key Terms
Bank identification number (BIN)
What is a six-digit number on a prescription drug card that is used for routing and identification to process a prescription claim?
The process by which a prescription is submitted electronically to a third-party payer for the pharmacy to be reimbursed for the medication dispensed.
What is adjudication?
Federal Legend
What is a statement required on the labeling of all prescription medications: “Federal Law prohibits dispensing without a prescription”?
Permission by a prescriber to replenish a prescription
What are refills?
Inscription
What is the name, dosage form, strength, and quantity of the medication prescribed?
Dispense as Written (DAW) codes
What are numerical set of codes, created by the National Council for Prescription Drug Programs (NCPDP), that is used when filling prescriptions; they can affect reimbursement amounts from insurance companies?
medications kept behind the pharmacy counter that require a pharmacist’s intervention before dispensing to a patient; BTC medications are not considered prescription medications
What are behind-the-counter (BTC) medications?
Over-the-counter (OTC) Medication
What is a medication that does not require a physician’s order or prescription for the patient to purchase?
An unincorporated business owned by one person
What is sole proprietorship?
Auxiliary label
What is a label that provides supplementary information about proper and safe administration, use, or storage of a medication?
Help Desk
What is a toll-free hotline to an insurance company, available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, so that pharmacists can call in specific questions about insurance claims and coverage and pharmacy-specific inquiries?
An alphanumeric number consisting of two letters and seven numbers that is assigned to prescribers authorized by the US Drug Enforcement Administration to prescribe controlled substances
What is a Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Number?
Prescription
What is an order for medication issued by a physician, dentist, or other properly licensed practitioner, such as a physical assistant or nurse practitioner?
A communication disorder that results from damage or injury to the language parts of the brain; it is more common in older adults, particularly those who have had a stroke
What is aphasia?
National Drug Code (NDC) Number
What is the unique 10- or 11-digit number, composed of three segments, that is assigned to a medication. The first four/five digits identify the drug manufacturer, the next four identify specifics about the product, and the last two identify the drug packaging?
Signatura (signa or sig)
What is the directions on a prescription that explains how the patient is to take the prescribed medication; a Latin expression meaning to “write on label”?
(Formerly known as the drug utilization review) An authorized, structured, ongoing review of health care provider prescribing, pharmacist dispensing, and patient use of medication
What is drug utilization evaluation (DUE)?
Proprietary (brand or trade) name
What is a brand name or trademark under which a drug product is marketed?
The computer-to-computer transfer of prescription data among pharmacies, prescribers, and payers
What is e-Prescribing?
National Provider Identifier (NPI)
What is a unique 10-digit identification number for covered health care providers that is issued by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services?
Therapeutic alliance
What is a trust relationship between a health care professional and a patient, incorporating patient perceptions of the acceptability of interventions and mutually agreed upon goals for treatment?
A speech deficiency that interferes with the normal control of the speech mechanism
What is Dysarthria?
Nonproprietary (generic) name
What is a short name coined for a drug or chemical that is not subject to proprietary (trademark) rights and is recommended or recognized by an official body?
A form of business organization in which a firm that already has a successful product or service (the franchisor) enters into a continuing contractual relationship with other business (franchisees) operating under a franchisor’s trade name and usually with the franchisor’s guidance, in exchange for a fee
What is a franchise?
Repackage
What is reducing the amount of medication taken from a bulk bottle?