Galiano Career Academy

Pharm. Technology / Operations / Clinicals

Course Code: PTO100
Credit Hours: 8
Clock Hours: 120

Course Description:

This course reviews the history of computers in pharmacy, current practice applications, and future trends. Legal and ethical issues surrounding information collection and retrieval are also addressed. The laboratory component of this course is designed to provide students with skills and knowledge needed to process prescriptions using pharmacy software. Students will gain proficiency in the use of ambulatory care prescription processing software. This course examines specifically, prescription entry and billing to third party. Students will gain a better understanding of insurance billing for prescriptions such as how to get correct information in order to avoid unnecessary problems. Additionally,students analyze rejected insurance claims to learn how to problem solve billing issues and get the prescription “paid” by the insurance carrier. Students review patient profiling, prescription filling and refilling.Students will learn the use of dispense as written(DAW) codes, pneumonic direction (SIG)codes, prior authorization, denial overrides, and drug utilization review (DUR) codes. Additionally covered is merging and deleting files. Students in this course increase their knowledge of pharmaceuticals, learning approximately 100 additional drugs. This course is designed to provide skills necessary to effectively practice in an ambulatory care setting.
Students learn to interpret prescription contents, the top 100 drugs, inventory control procedures, tasks associated with procurement of pharmaceuticals, completing and filing records for third party reimbursement, and requirements for completing and filing prescription records. Students are introduced to nonsterile compounding.