Interpersonal skills
- skills involving relationships between people
Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (OBRA)
- federal legislation requiring pharmacists to provide counseling to Medicare patients receiving new prescriptions
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)
- federal legislation designed to protect patients' personal and medical information and also to encourage use of electronic data interchange in the US
Medicare Prescription Drug Improvement and Modernization Act
- federal legislation that created Medicare Part D and made allowance for Medicare recipients to receive Medicare medical coverage through private health insurance plans
Combat Methamphetamine Act (CMEA)
- federal legislation enacted to regulate over the counter sales of ephedrine and pseudoephedrine
Red Flag Rule
- a set of provisions created by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to help prevent identity theft from patient billing accounts maintained by medical and financial institutions
Transaction windows
- counter areas designated for taking prescriptions and for dispensing them to patients
Safety cap
- a child resistant cap
Counting Tray
- a tray designed for counting pills from a stock bottle into a prescription vial
Kirby Lester
Automatic pill counting devices are frequently used to help a technician count medications.
Parata Max
Automated filling and dispensing machines
- automated machines that fill and label pill bottles with correct quantities of ordered drugs
Auxiliary labels
- labels regarding specific warnings, food or medications to avoid, potential side effects, and other cautionary interaction
Signature log
- a book which patients sign for the prescriptions they receive, for legal and insurance purposes; may be electronic
Markup
- the difference between the retailer's purchase price and their sale price
Shelf stickers
- stickers with bar codes that can be scanned for inventory identification
Unit price
- the price of a unit of medication, such as one ounce of a liquid cold remedy
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