LAC 50:XXIX.113. Prescription Limit

A. Effective February 1, 2011, the Department of Health and Hospitals will pay for a maximum of four prescriptions per calendar month for Medicaid recipients. B. The following federally mandated recipient groups are exempt from the four prescriptions per calendar month limitation: 1. persons under 21 years of age; 2. persons who are residents of long-term care institutions, such as nursing homes and ICF-DD facilities; and 3. pregnant women. C. The four prescriptions per month limit can be exceeded when the prescriber determines an additional prescription is medically necessary and communicates the following information to the pharmacist in his own handwriting or by telephone or other telecommunications device: 1. “medically necessary override;” and 2. a valid diagnosis code that is directly related to each drug prescribed that is over the four prescription limit (literal descriptions are not acceptable). D. The prescriber should use the Clinical Drug Inquiry (CDI) internet web application developed by the fiscal intermediary in his/her clinical assessment of the patient’s disease state or medical condition and the current drug regime before making a determination that more than four prescriptions per calendar month is required by the recipient. E. Printed statements without the prescribing practitioner’s signature, check-off boxes or stamped signatures are not acceptable documentation. F. An acceptable statement and ICD-10-CM, or its successor, diagnosis code are required for each prescription in excess of four per calendar month. G. Pharmacists and prescribers are required to maintain documentation to support the override of a prescription limitation.