New process for PPA Drugs Claims?
Just found a process that must be affecting every GP practice in the country and needs computerising and streamlining - looking at Healthtech-1 or other companies… EMIS?
Just found my finance team surrounded by prescriptions. all piled in neat piles. Every quarter - we do a PPA drugs claim. These are drugs we buy in - we use for example - B12 injections - Lidocaine for minor ops. We issue the prescription and sign it by hand and rather than giving it to the patient we keep it to claim the reimbursement - ok there is a small profit in this. However the system is a nightmare.
Every prescriptions needs to be put into a pile of which GP authorised it. Each drug and for which there are many needs to be counted separately e.g. 412 vials of lidocaine 1% etc. Some docs/nurses forget to issue the script loosing us money… Then this all needs to be recorded on paper - yes paper - by doctor, by drug with the prescriptions attached (we have 32 GPs)
What!! all other scripts go EPS - is there no way this couldn’t be automated? Come on EMIS or someone - you must be able to get this info from the EPR - count all of these and create a master sheet that could be submitted electronically. What is the PPA button for?
My team says its takes a day. ok we are large but for 6000 GP surgeries - this must be a huge waste of time - and who knows what the PPA do at the other side having 6000 GPs surgeries worth of paper and prescriptions arrive!!
Am I and my surgery mad - have we missed a better way of doing this -has anyone solved this?