4.0 Change History

The following sections provide the history of changes made to this document.

4.1 December 7, 2007

No changes. This is the first published version of the document.

4.2 March 19, 2008

The changes in this cycle address the following comment:

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The following changes have been made to the construct:

Made editorial changes based on comments

Removed constraint on RXFILL PTT segment Gender, coded field

Removed constraint on RXFILL DRU segment Free text code list qualifier field requiring use of FMT coded fields

Set Requirements column in Table 2-8 and Table 2-9 to R, R2, C or O as appropriate

Added additional comments in Table 2-9

4.3 March 27, 2008

Upon approval by the HITSP Panel on March 27, 2008, this document is now Released for Implementation.

4.4 August 20, 2008

This document has been modified to reflect the updated HITSP approach to categorizing standards as Regulatory Guidance, Selected Standards, and Informative References.

Removed the following from the list of standards:

National Library of Medicine (NLM) Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) RxNorm

4.5 August 27, 2008

Upon approval by the HITSP Panel on August 27, 2008, this document is now Released for Implementation.

4.6 June 30, 2009

Minor editorial changes were made to this document. Boilerplate text was removed for simplification. The term actor was replaced with interface.

4.7 July 8, 2009

Upon approval by the HITSP Panel on July 8, 2009, this document is now Released for Implementation.



[1] NCPDP SCRIPT 10.1 does not support the use of Federal Medication Terminology (FMT) coded fields for Drug Form, Drug Strength and Drug Unit of Measure. This will be considered in future versions of this construct

[2] Optionality = R for Required, R2 for Required if Known or O for Optional, or C for Conditional

[3] Optionality = R for Required, R2 for Required if Known or O for Optional, or C for Conditional

[4] Optionality = R for Required, R2 for Required if Known or O for Optional, or C for Conditional