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There’s no escaping it. One of the major trends in the healthcare industry is the Medicaid Tamper Resistant Prescription Law. Even though many Americans ingest pills legitimately, there are thousands more who obtain fraudulent and counterfeit prescriptions. Effective in April 2008, the law applies to written prescriptions for covered outpatient drugs, whenever Medicaid pays any portion of the cost of a prescription. Alternatives to written prescriptions, such as those transmitted from the prescriber to the pharmacist via fax, verbally or through an e-prescription are not affected. To date, the law mandates prescription pads contain tamper-resistant features that accomplish at least one of three tasks:
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