Newly prescribed compensatory drugs – for a month – AINA

In a meeting with representatives of the health insurance fund, members of the Union of People with Disabilities of the Panevėžys region claimed that one of the reasons why residents accumulate a lot of old, unnecessary medicines is the bad practice of prescribing them. It is said that when compensating drugs are replaced by others, they are often prescribed for more than one month. If it turns out that the new drug is not suitable for the patient, it remains unused.

Specialists of the Panevėžys Territorial Hospital Fund (TLK) remind us of the prescription procedure:

• Medicines can be prescribed for the first time in cases of acute diseases for up to 10 days of treatment. In other cases – up to 1 month, except when the smallest inner packaging of the drug is intended for a course of treatment longer than 1 month and cannot be disassembled. If it is necessary to continue taking the prescribed medication, once it is confirmed that it is effective, it can be re-prescribed for more than a month (with some exceptions).
• Later, compensatory drugs can be prescribed for a course of up to 6 months of treatment:
• The required amount (when a single prescription is issued) can be purchased by the patient at one time, but if it is prescribed for a course of treatment longer than 3 months, the healthcare professional must document this in the patient’s medical records.
• The required amount can be purchased periodically by the patient. The recipe can be

is prescribed in a prescribed manner in one or more prescriptions marked “Continuation of treatment”. The periodicity of the purchase must be determined so that the patient can purchase no more than a 3-month treatment period during one purchase. If a prescription marked “Continuation of treatment” with a periodicity of acquisition allows the purchase of drugs for a treatment period of more than 3 months at a time, the health care professional must document this in the patient’s medical records.

We thank the Panevėžys Region Association of People with Disabilities and its chairman Jonas Dumša for the meeting.

Panevėžys Territorial Sick Fund