The spending bill that was recently passed by the federal government had
a provision attached which requires all Medicaid prescriptions be
written on a tamper resistant prescription form. This provision requires
implementation by October 1st, 2007.
Under this provision, it does notdefine what security features must be present to be considered “Tamper Resistant”, so it is up to state legislators to determine what their states guidelines will be.
There are currently 9 states which have mandated security features already
implemented. (IN, NJ, KY, FL, WV, ME, CA, WY & NY). Those states will
probably not be required to make any changes to their current design
requirements.
That means that 41 states will have to draft and pass legislation to comply with this Federal mandate by October 1st.