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Formulary Usage

The use of a formulary is diverse. You can do the following: You can discourage the use of marginally effective medications and treatments. You can assure the selected medications are proven to be safe, effective, and affordable. You can reduce the overall health care coverage costs. Every organization, such as hospitals, insurance companies, pharmacy benefit management companies, government agencies, and self-insured employers, develops its own unique formulary. There are no established universal standards to develop a formulary. Therefore, the list of drugs, methods to create such lists, and the design of each formulary can be different. Parent topic: Formulary

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Formulary Search

NextGen® Enterprise EHR allows you to search for and prescribe medications using the formulary or non-formulary search. You can select to use the medication search window or the formulary search window. To use the formulary search window, you must have either Surescripts or InfoScan services enabled. Formulary Search Access Formulary Search Use Formulary Search Formulary Information Formulary Enable Formulary Search Configure Formulary Search Preferences Parent topic: Formulary Parent topic: Medications Module

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Formulary

A formulary is a list of drugs and a set of rules that govern the drug's use. The list represents the most current clinical opinion of physicians, pharmacists, and other experts of pharmacology and disease treatment and prevention. The list is regularly updated and revised. Each organization researches and determines the safest and most cost-effective list of drugs. In this case, an organization represents the name of a company that corresponds to a health care plan. Any number of organizations can share the same formulary; however, each organization can have only one current formulary. Formulary Usage Formulary Maintenance Therapeutic Classes and Subclasses Formulary Search Parent topic: Supported ePrescribing Features Parent topic: Formulary Search

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Formulary Search Requirements

The formulary search automatically replaces the regular medication search engine at run time. If you use the InfoScan formularies, in File Maintenance, you must set up a default formulary provider with the appropriate formulary code and then set up a formulary for each available payer. Note: If you do not set up a formulary for each payer in File Maintenance, you should consider setting up a default formulary provider used for any payer that does not have a matching formulary configured. You must set up each payer accepted by your medical practice with the appropriate formulary. To use the formulary search, the following conditions must be met: Formulary update (Surescripts and InfoScan) is applied to the NextGen database Note: The medication and formulary data must be updated on a regular, usually monthly, basis. For more information, go to NextGen Healthcare Success Community and download the latest Formulary Data Loader Utility User Guide for NextGen® Enterprise EHR. Universal prefe

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Formulary Information

Use formulary search to get information related to selected medications. Formulary information can include any of the following: Formulary Notes Formulary Status Copay Coverage Note: Availability of formulary information depends on the selected Formulary Provider and the medication selected. Formulary Status Formulary Notes View Formulary Data Parent topic: Formulary Search

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Access Formulary Search

In the Medications module, you can use the Medication Search window to perform a formulary search. Do one of the following: Select Medication Search . Select Prescribe New. If formulary search is not set as your default, the Medication Search window opens. Medication Search window Select Use Formulary. The Medication Search window displays the formulary search options. Medication Search window Parent topic: Formulary Search

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