If you wish to make changes to any of the settings for your Schemes:
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Navigate to Modules--> Configuration
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Click Schemes from the left-hand menu to open the Schemes page
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Locate the Scheme you wish to edit and click the pencil icon beside it
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You will now be shown the scheme maintenance screen which has various sections of settings that you can change.
The tables below detail the various settings and what they control.
- Local Scheme Settings
| Setting | Setting Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Max Repeats | Text Box | This setting is used when pressing Insert in the dispensing application to automatically set the Maximum Repeats available for a script. Once all repeats have been used up, the next Repeat of the script will create a new prescription record in the system. |
| Valid For | Text Box | This setting is used when pressing Insert in the dispensing application to automatically set the Valid Until for the script. Once the Valid Until date has passed, any Repeat of the script will create a new prescription record in the system. |
| Barcode Prefix | Text Box | This setting is used if you need to prepend up to 3 specific digits to the barcode of a Bag Label to tell your Retail system what Scheme is being scanned. The system will take the entered digits, add on 0's, embed the total price of the dispensings and append the check digit to make a 13-digit barcode to be printed on the Bag Label. |
| Permitted Drug Type | Dropdown Option | This setting is used to control what types of products are allowed to be dispensed under this Scheme. |
| Payment Type | Dropdown Option | This setting determines whether Scheme is a Public or Private scheme. Patient is for a Private scheme where the Pharmacy is being paid by the patient only. Authority is for a Public scheme where the Pharmacy is being reimbursed by HSE/PCRS. |
| Loan Type | Dropdown Option | This setting controls whether this scheme will have access to the Emergency Supply option in the Current Dispense screen or the On Loan option. |
| Card reference required | Check Box | This setting controls whether this Scheme will insist that a Card Reference e.g. Card No. is added against it in the patient's Edit F3 section. |
| Scheme expiry required | Check Box | This setting controls whether this Scheme will insist that scheme expiry details e.g. Year / Month are added against it in the patient's Edit F3 section. |
| GMS doctor required | Check Box | This setting is used when dispensing items under this Scheme and determines whether the GMS Doctor assigned to the script is required to have a valid GMS Number. |
| Split script on date | Check Box | This will split scripts to new form numbers based on the prescribed date. |
| Auto populate the scheme | Check Box | This setting is used when creating a new patient record and automatically adds this Scheme to the patient's Edit F3. |
| Show form number | Check Box | This setting is used when completing a dispense and controls whether the form number will display on the screen after completion. |
| This scheme is active | Check Box | This setting controls whether this Scheme is in use in the system. |
| Code 777 Option | Check Box | This setting allows you to Ignore, Warn, or Disallow products with a 77750 code from being dispensed |
- Claim Settings
| Setting | Setting Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Claim Form Type | Dropdown Option | This setting is maintained by TouchStore and can be ignored. |
| Authority Type | Dropdown Option | This determines whether this Scheme is a public Scheme claimable via Electronic submission to the PCRS or whether it is a manually claimable scheme. < none > Manual Payments is also used for schemes that are not reimbursable. |
Validation Checks
| Setting | Setting Type | Description |
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| Check claim prescriber | Check Box | This setting controls whether the system will force a valid GMS Number for the Prescribing Doctor against a dispense under this scheme when using the Verify for Claiming function in the Claims Module. |
| Check claim product | Check Box | This setting controls whether the system will force a valid GMS Number for a dispense under this scheme when using the Verify for Claiming function in the Claims Module. |
| Check patient reference | Check Box | This setting controls whether the system will force a valid Card Reference for the patient when using the Verify for Claiming function in the Claims Module for dispenses under this scheme. |
| Claim full owings | Check Box | This setting is maintained by TouchStore and can be ignored. |
- Print Settings
| Setting | Setting Type | Description |
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| Receipt Comment | Dropdown Option | This setting controls the comment that is printed on the footer of the UCF Prescription Receipt. |
| Receipts To Print | Text Box | This setting controls how many UCF Prescription Receipts are automatically printed a new dispense is completed. |
| Print drug price | Check Box | This setting controls whether the individual drug prices are to be printed on the UCF Prescription Receipt for dispenses under this scheme. |
| Print total price | Check Box | This setting controls whether the total script price are to be printed on the UCF Prescription Receipt for dispenses under this scheme. |
- Label Options
| Setting | Setting Type | Description |
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| Print product advice | Check Box | This setting controls whether Product Advice Labels will print for products dispensed under this scheme that have Product Advice assigned to them. |
| Print bag label barcodes | Check Box | This setting controls whether the Bag Labels for dispenses under this scheme will include a barcode on them for scanning at an EPoS system. |
- Scheme Pricing
Dispense Fees
| Setting | Setting Type | Description |
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| Standard | Text Box | This specifies the Dispense Fee applied to dispenses under this Scheme that are not subject to any of the other fees shown below. |
| Phase | Text Box | This specifies the additional fees that are added for items that are dispensed in a phased manner. |
| Not Dispensed | Text Box | This specifies the Dispense Fee applied to dispenses of items under this scheme that are not provided to the patient and will be marked / claimed as Not Dispensed items. |
| Extemporaneous | Text Box | This specifies the Dispense Fee applied to dispenses of Extemporaneous products under this Scheme. _N.B. This applies to dispenses with a GMS Number beginning with 90, 91, 92 or 99. |
| Supervision | Text Box | This specifies the values of the Supervision Fee that will be added alongside the Dispensing Fee to any supervised dispenses under this Scheme. |
| Controlled Drug | Text Box | This specifies the value of the Dispensing Fee applied to dispenses of Controlled Drugs under this scheme. N.B. this will apply to any items with a Poison Code beginning with CD. |
| Patient Care | Text Box | This specifies what fee, if any, is used for the High Tech Patient Care Fee for this scheme. This setting is only relevant for the High Tech Scheme. |
| Markup Rate | Dropdown Option | This specifies the Markup Rate to be applied to the Cost Price of an item dispensed under this scheme. |
| Apply GMS Levy | Check Box | This setting controls whether all products dispensed under this Scheme attract the GMS Levy or not. |
| Override price points | Check Box | If a product dispensed under this Scheme has a Price Point set up against it, this setting determines whether the Dispense Fee and Markup Rate specified in the Price Point is used or if the Scheme settings take precedence instead. |
Reference Pricing
| Setting | Setting Type | Description |
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| Base Supplement Price | Dropdown Option | This setting controls how the dispensary system will calculate what the Supplement Amount for a Reference Priced product will be when the product is not being substituted. The calculation will always be the difference between the Reference Price for the product and whatever setting is chosen here. |
| Base Reference Price | Dropdown Option | This setting controls how the dispensary system will calculate what the Reference Price for a Reference Priced product should be based on when the product is not being substituted. |
| Apply reference pricing | Check Box | This setting controls whether Reference Pricing will be used when dispensing products under this scheme. If this is unchecked, Reference Priced items will be treated like non-Reference Priced items when dispensed under this scheme. |
| Force supplement | Check Box | This setting controls whether the system will automatically mark Reference Priced dispenses under this scheme as Force Supplement which will add a Supplement Amount to Reference Priced items dispensed under this Scheme, if Reference Pricing is enabled. |
How to Delete an Existing Scheme
N.B. Do NOT delete any of the Default Schemes in the system. See the list above for more information.
- If you wish to delete one of your custom schemes you can use the trash can button
in the Config module on the Schemes page.
in the Config module on the Schemes page. 