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CMS-1403-FC
Prescription Fill Status Notification Transaction (and its
three business cases which include the following:
Prescription Fill Status Notification Transaction—Filled;
Prescription Fill Status Notification Transaction—Not
Filled; and Prescription Fill Status Notification
Transaction—Partial Fill) hereafter referred to as “NCPDP
SCRIPT 5.0,” as the standard for communicating
prescriptions and prescription-related information between
prescribers and dispensers. Subsequently, in the
June 23, 2006 Federal Register (71 FR 36020), we published
an interim final rule with comment period (IFC) that
maintained NCPDP SCRIPT 5.0 as the adopted standard, but
allowed for the voluntary use of a subsequent backward
compatible version of the standard, NCPDP SCRIPT 8.1. In
the April 7, 2008 Federal Register, we published a final
rule (73 FR 18918) that finalized the June 23, 2006 IFC;
effective April 1, 2009, we will retire the NCPDP SCRIPT
5.0 and adopt NCPDP SCRIPT 8.1 as the standard. Hereafter
we refer to these standards as “NCPDP SCRIPT.”
The November 7, 2005 final rule also established an
exemption to the requirement to utilize the NCPDP SCRIPT
standard for entities that transmit prescriptions or
prescription-related information for Part D covered drugs
prescribed for Part D eligible individuals by means of
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