{"id":158,"date":"2012-09-06T19:28:31","date_gmt":"2012-09-06T19:28:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.akron.duonglam.ca\/?page_id=158"},"modified":"2012-09-06T19:28:31","modified_gmt":"2012-09-06T19:28:31","slug":"green-shield-drug-authorization","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.akron.duonglam.ca\/?page_id=158","title":{"rendered":"Green Shield Drug Authorization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Under Green Shield, certain medications must be authorized before it will be covered. \u00a0You will receive a error message when adjudicating stating &#8220;Drug mus be authorized&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The physician must complete a form for the drug and fax it directly to Green Shield. \u00a0To obtain the form, proceed to the Green Shield provider site:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.providerconnect.ca\/Default.aspx\">https:\/\/www.providerconnect.ca\/Default.aspx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Under &#8220;What You Need&#8221; click on &#8220;Pharmacy Provider&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Under &#8220;Pharmacy Forms&#8221; click on &#8220;Drug Authorization Form&#8221;. \u00a0Then select either &#8220;Brand name&#8221; or &#8220;Generic name&#8221; then click the first letter of your drug. \u00a0Click on the name of the drug then print out the form.<\/p>\n<p>Forms can then be either given to the patient for faxed directly to the physician. \u00a0Please make sure to stress the forms must be faxed directly to Green Shield. \u00a0Once the form is received by GS, it will take 2 business days to process. \u00a0The patient will be notified by mail if the drug will or will not be covered. \u00a0Patients may pay for the drug first and submit for reimbursement if coverage is subsequently approved. \u00a0They will not be reimbursed if the drug is not covered. \u00a0Patients may contact GS for more information after 2 business days.<\/p>\n<p>GS will reimburse pharmacies for printing the form and providing it to the patient\/physician. \u00a0For pharmacies to claim reimbursement, process a new prescription in Nexxsys under the patient&#8217;s file using <strong>PIN 991252. \u00a0<\/strong>GS will pay a $10 fee .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Under Green Shield, certain medications must be authorized before it will be covered. \u00a0You will receive a error message when adjudicating stating &#8220;Drug mus be authorized&#8221;. The physician must complete a form for the drug and fax it directly to<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.akron.duonglam.ca\/?page_id=158\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":99,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-158","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akron.duonglam.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akron.duonglam.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akron.duonglam.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akron.duonglam.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akron.duonglam.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=158"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.akron.duonglam.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":159,"href":"https:\/\/www.akron.duonglam.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/158\/revisions\/159"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akron.duonglam.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/99"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akron.duonglam.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}