Watching the Monitors: “PAID” Prescriptions, Fiscal Intermediaries and Drug-Utilization Review
- 3 February 1977
- journal article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 296 (5) , 251-256
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm197702032960505
Abstract
Prescription monitoring evolved from the need of drug firms to obtain marketing information. Today, extensive monitoring is also done by fiscal intermediaries who administer prepaid drug benefit plans, both private and governmental, particularly Medicaid. The most important such agent is PAID Prescriptions.Keywords
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