Pharmaceutical Claims Technical Specifications




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NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

No. 44

60 Prescription Flag

  • Refer [Prescriber Flag].
  • [Prescription Flag] is to set when the prescription has been endorsed “congestive heart failure” by the Prescriber.

61 Dose Flag

  • Indicates whether a prescription has provided dose directions sufficient to place information in the [Dose] and [Daily Dose].
  • Where the pharmaceutical is an ointment or lotion or the [Dose] and [Daily Dose] can not be expressed, such in the case of PRNs or “Take as Required” this field should be set to Y.
  • The appropriate codes are:
Dose Flag Code
Yes Y
No N

62 Prescription ID

  • Unique ID for each script item as annotated on the prescription by the pharmacist.
  • This code is generated by the pharmacy software, and should be the full system number regardless of how the number is concatenated on script labels.
  • Where a number of pharmaceutical items are combined or compounded, each item should have the same Prescription ID.

63 Prescription ID Suffix

  • Suffix to the Prescription ID.
  • The appropriate codes are:
Dispensing Code
Stat 0
Initial dispensing 1
Subsequent dispensing Sequential number for each dispensing
  • [Prescription ID Suffix] should allow up to 98 repeats.

64 Date of Service

  • Dispensing date.


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VUW Te Waharoa PDF NZ Gazette 2001, No 44


Gazette.govt.nz PDF NZ Gazette 2001, No 44





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