Our pharmacy computer system performs DUR edits. Why should Medi-Cal duplicate this effort?
A. EDS/Medi-Cal has more interlinked recipient data than any single in-store system. This database allows EDS/Medi-Cal to send drug-disease alerts to pharmacists that link the incoming drug claim to the recipient’s history of diagnoses. This database also contains pharmacy records for a recipient from any pharmacy that processed paid fee-for-service Medi-Cal claims. As a result, therapeutic duplication, ingredient duplication, drug-pregnancy, drug-allergy, additive toxicity and drug-drug interaction alerts provide more information than an in-store system does. So, some overlap exists between the EDS/Medi-Cal system and an in-store system. But the EDS/Medi-Cal system offers important features which provides pharmacists with essential information.
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