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Download Selected Pharmacies in File Maintenance

You can use manual pharmacy search to find pharmacies to download by using various criteria. From the search results, you can then select one or more pharmacies to download.

  1. In File Maintenance, from the Main menu, select File > Download Pharmacies.
    The Download Pharmacies to NextGen window opens.
    Download Pharmacies to NextGen

  2. To filter the search results, on the Manual Pharmacy Search tab, enter your search criteria.
  3. Select Search.
    Pharmacies that match the search criteria display in the Results section.
    Download Pharmacies to NextGen

    The results are grouped and listed by how the pharmacies are known to the system. The available groups are:
    • New to the System. Pharmacies new to the system that do not match a record in the Pharmacies master file.
    • Can be Mapped. Pharmacies new to the system that can be automatically matched to manually-entered pharmacies in the Pharmacies master file.
    • Expired. Pharmacies in the system that are marked as expired by Surescripts. Expired pharmacies cannot be used for ePrescribing because all cross-referenced links are broken.
    • Already Mapped in the System. Downloaded pharmacies marked for use for ePrescribing.
    • Map Manually. Indicates the following:
      • Multiple downloaded pharmacies have the same fax number matching to an existing unmatched pharmacy in the Pharmacies master file.
      • There is a single downloaded pharmacy that matches two or more existing unmatched pharmacies in the Pharmacies master file.
    • Hidden. Existing pharmacies in the Pharmacies master file set to be hidden.
  4. To change the order of the pharmacy names, select a column heading.
  5. Select the check boxes for the pharmacies to add.
  6. Select Apply or OK.
    A message displays the number of pharmacies that were added.