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FLASPER: Florida All Schedule Prescription Electronic Reporting FLASPER A Florida All Schedule Prescription Electronic Reporting Act that works with other states to enhance medical treatment and prevent “doctor shopping”. Florida Society of Interventional Pain Physicians
FLASPER: Florida All Schedule Prescription Electronic Reporting NASPER National All Schedule Prescription Electronic Reporting Act was signed into law by President Bush August 11, 2005
FLASPER: Florida All Schedule Prescription Electronic Reporting NASPER A national, state-run, prescription drug monitoring program to help curb prescription drug abuse
FLASPER: Florida All Schedule Prescription Electronic Reporting NASPER “Billions of federal and state dollars are spent to purchase drugs for chronic pain patients and to manage consequences of their prescription drug abuse. NASPER ensures accessible sources of prescription verification, an important first step in solving this problem.” ASIPP CEO, Laxmaiah Manchikanti, MD
FLASPER: Florida All Schedule Prescription Electronic Reporting NASPER The law authorizes spending $60 million from fiscal year 2006 to 2010 to create a federal grant program housed at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to help establish or improve state-run prescription drug monitoring programs.
FLASPER: Florida All Schedule Prescription Electronic Reporting NASPER The 20 states that have programs can apply for grants to expand and improve them. Other states, like Florida, can apply for startup funds.
FLASPER: Florida All Schedule Prescription Electronic Reporting FLASPER Drug monitoring in Florida intended to improve patient access and prevent “doctor shopping and drug diversion” – a practice in which patients receive prescriptions, such as pain medicines, from multiple doctors to treat the same illness.
FLASPER: Florida All Schedule Prescription Electronic Reporting FLASPER Allows physicians and pharmacists in Florida to access patient records, showing what controlled substances are already prescribed.
FLASPER: Florida All Schedule Prescription Electronic Reporting FLASPER Assists Florida Doctors in avoiding duplication of prescriptions and the possibility of prescribing one medication that could be harmful when mixed with another
FLASPER: Florida All Schedule Prescription Electronic Reporting FLASPER Reasons For Drug Monitoring System: Public Health Issues Promote appropriate treatment(“clear” patients with pain for reasonable use of scheduled medicines as part of care) Deter prescription drug abuse(& detect / refer / treat) Costs Quick and easy access to information States recognition of the need for such Databanks
FLASPER: Florida All Schedule Prescription Electronic Reporting FLASPER Step-by-step: 1. Within six months after money was appropriated for NASPER, the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services published regulations to establish specific minimum standards for all state Controlled Substance Monitoring Programs (CSMPs). The secretary first published the proposed regulations and requested public comment. At that point, ASIPP members input was critical to ensure that the best possible regulations were formed to help implement the law.
FLASPER: Florida All Schedule Prescription Electronic Reporting FLASPER Step-by-step: 2. NASPER allows each state to establish an Advisory Council to assist in the establishment, implementation or improvement of its CSMP. FSIPP members can encourage their governors to create the council and offer to serve on it. This will help FSIPP play a role in the implementation of CSMPs.
FLASPER: Florida All Schedule Prescription Electronic Reporting FLASPER Step-by-step: 3. NASPER authorizes$15 millionto be appropriated in Fiscal Year 2006 and 2007. In each Fiscal Year 2008, 2009 and 2010, another$10 millionis authorized. FSIPP members desire full funding every year.
FLASPER: Florida All Schedule Prescription Electronic Reporting FLASPER Step-by-step: 4. FSIPP members will work with their individual state legislators and/or state agencies to establish a state CSMP. These state level programs must be in place before the state can apply for federal funding.
FLASPER: Florida All Schedule Prescription Electronic Reporting FLASPER Step-by-step: 5. FSIPP encourages state representatives to supplement the federal grants with state funding
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