Standards Data Maintenance

Consensus Group

To meet ANSI requirements for certification of NCPDP standards, a new Voting Consensus Group is formed annually for new data maintenance packets resulting from the Joint Technical Work Group Meetings held in that year. To participate one must enroll each year. The enrollment period occurs in the January-February timeframe. Participation in the Voting Consensus Group is voluntary but must consist of at least 30 participants and represent a reasonable balance of stakeholder interests.

Public Review of Proposed NCPDP Standards Information

Public comments are solicited on proposed new standards and proposals to revise, reaffirm or withdraw approval of existing standards simultaneously with the NCPDP ballot period.

The NCPDP Public Review of Proposed NCPDP Standards period opens on Friday, September 8, 2023, and closes Monday, October 23, 2023. Should you wish to submit an Official Public Comment, the Council must receive your Official Public Comment no later than 5:00 p.m. PDT/ 6:00 p.m. MDT/ 7:00 p.m. CDT/ 8:00 p.m. EDT on Monday, October 23, 2023. All explanatory comments submitted on "Object with Reason" and "Accept with Comments" will be reviewed at the next scheduled Joint Technical Work Group meeting, which will be held on November 1-3, 2023, in San Antonio, TX.

Proposed NCPDP Standards Packet #WG020014

Proposed NCPDP Standards Packet #WG020014
WG02 Product Identifiers - Proposed NCPDP Standards Packet #WG020014 for enhancements to the Product Identifiers Standard Implementation Guide.

This proposed packet contains the following request from the listed DERF(s):

  • DERF 001950 which requested updates to Product Identifiers Standard sections 5.4 and 7.5.

Approval of proposed packet # WG020014 would result in the release of the Product Identifiers Standard Implementation Guide Version 1.8.

Proposed NCPDP Standards Packet #WG110094

Proposed NCPDP Standards Packet #WG110094
WG11 ePrescribing & Related Transactions - Proposed NCPDP Standards Packet #WG110094 for enhancements SCRIPT Standard Implementation Guide and Specialized Standard Implementation Guide.

This proposed packet contains the following requests from the listed DERF(s):

  • DERF 001955 which requested the removal of verbiage about MessageRequestCode from Section 5.16.9 of the SCRIPT Implementation Guide.
  • DERF 001956 which requested adding a new Credentials element to the NameType composite for SCRIPT and Specialized.
  • DERF 001968 which requested to remove all references to CCR, Continuity of Care Document (CCD) and HITSP from the NCPDP SCRIPT and Specialized Standard Implementation Guides and schema. It also requests to sunset the element of ClinicalInfoFormatsRequested in the Data Dictionary and External Code list and to create a new element ClinicalInfoFormatsSupported with the value of CDA (Clinical Document Architecture) to match the element name used in the messages. Lastly, it requests to remove a value referencing CCR for MIMEType from the ECL and the schema.

Approval of proposed packet #WG110094 would result in the release of SCRIPT Standard Implementation Guide and Specialized Standard Implementation Guide all to be known as Version 202Yxx# (Version number to be assigned once Board approval is obtained.)

Non-NCPDP Member Comments

$200.00 per comment period will be charged for non-NCPDP members choosing to submit comments. This fee allows the non-member the ability to obtain copies of the NCPDP produced documents for that comment period.

The comment period includes documents for the proposed new or revised NCPDP Standards under consideration.

If you are not an NCPDP member but wish to supply comments to any or all of these proposals, please complete the registration form.

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NCPDP Member Comments

If you are an NCPDP member, but not an NCPDP Consensus Group participant and wish to submit a comment, go to your MyNCPDP Member Portal. Scroll to the bottom of the page and click on Ballots.

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