Question

Kerry Kosh had a new patient appointment with Dr. Smith. She is covered by Tricare under the sponsorship of her husband, Carl. She presented her card insurance.

At the visit, the doctor gave Kerry three prescriptions for long-term medications. Each prescription was written for a year’s worth refills. As the medical assistant handed the prescriptions to Kerry, she noticed the number of refills. She told the patient that she could mail the prescriptions to the military based that was approximately 40 miles, but probably would not received the refills for more than a week. She then offered to call in a week’s worth of medications to a local pharmacy.

Questions:

1. What would be the advantage of sending the prescriptions to the military base?
2. How does this show the medical office assistant’s concern for the patients health care?

Answer 1

1 ) A military pharmacy id the least expensive option for filling prescriptions. At a military pharmacy , you may receive up to a 90day supply of most medications at no cost.. Non formulary medications generally are not available at military pharmacies.

2) Medical office assistants (MOAs) support doctors and other health care professionals by performing a variety of clerical and administrative tasks such as scheduling appointments, word processing , bookkeeping, accounting , photocopying filing , answering the phone, and correspondence .