Two Dates on Prescription Pads?

Two Dates on Prescription Pads?

Sagar Shetty

1/30/2013

Dear List,
 
Now this is new, and scary, and confusing to me:
 
I just read through the new Ask-the-contractor teleconference
transcript from Jurisdiction B from December of 2012. This is what it
says about dates on prescription pads:
 
… for prescription pads that have the names of the doctors listed at
the top and they’re signing their name below, if they circle their
name at the top, that would validate the eligible signature. Now, we do
require though, we do require a date with that signature, so because
it’s stated at the top, that doesn’t tell that’s the date it was
actually signed by the physician. So they’re going to have to add a
space or just writing a date there by their signature in order to show
that that is actually when they signed for it.
 
Most of ALL physician prescription pads that I have seen have a section
for date on top (date of the order), but not an additional date section
next to their signature (date of the signature??). They are expecting
dates on two places on the prescription pads? Have I just gone crazy and
not interpreting this correctly? I hope I am just crazy. Please share
your opinions on this with me. Here is the link of the transcript where
I read this (on page 7):

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(Also, with regard to my previous post on acceptable documentation
answer given by the contractor for physician signing off on prosthetist
record, I myself am not relying on that and I still insist/request
physicians that they actually note the evaluation in their comprehensive
progress notes for the patient for it to be acceptable)

 
Sagar Shetty
Bionic Prosthetics & Orthotics