#Stately: Provider Manual Moves to “Pad Format”

by Lane Krakowski
Janaury 17, 2007

State Administration of Human Services and Health Related Stuff staff unveiled a major revision to the format of the State Phrenocaid Provider Manual to give pharmacists, doctors, and other healthcare professionals a more concise way to obtain much needed information. A newly designed mouse pad, known as the "pad lad," will provide almost all of the key information in a relatively easy-to-read format. In addition, the new format will allow users of electronic peripheral devices to read the flat surface while using the peripheral device to find more information online.

"I think it's real neat," SAHSHRS manager Bertha Certa said during Monday's press conference. "We plan to have a table at the convention center next month during some healthcare show to give these away to all the pharmacists and techs. Too often attendees of shows like this get rulers or a set of scented stamps for door prizes. We think this not only is a real neat idea but a great educational tool."

Deputy State Phrenocaid Director Oscar Shueler agreed. "By improving the manual and making it a one-stop, easy-to-carry and accessible document, we are making it easier for all the providers of the state to explain whatever benefits and the associated risks of this crazy Phrenocaid program."

The 7.5"x 8.5" piece of plastic will feature such necessities such as provider enrollment and responsibilities; reimbursement methodology; and guidance for understanding basic, advanced, presumptive, restricted, denied, supposed, and historic Phrenocaid eligibility. A large portion of the pad explains a number of key educational concepts, such as how people under 21 years of age get an unlimited amount of prescriptions per month, how to synthesize compounded prescriptions with the blood from a turnip and a brick, and how Phrenocaid is not really just a pseudo-science.

Plans are in the works for a state Phrenocaid formulary companion mouse pad that would list the multitude of drug classes that the Phrenocaid program covers. Also, talks are in the works to publish Dispense This!, the periodic newsletter, on flavored pencils, to further push the newsletter and its 2007 motto, “Tasty Drug Knowledge at your fingertips.”