Scope
MC Maintenance and Control monitors and maintains the development of NCPDP standards, implementation guides and reference documents, promotes consistent business and technical administration, makes recommendations to the Standardization Co-Chairs on development procedures, due process compliance, as well as ethical and legal matters. MC provides a forum for updates of work group activities, resolution of inter-Work Group issues and discussion of legislative, regulatory, policy and court decisions which may affect the pharmacy industry.
Goals
- Promote NCPDP membership, attendance and active participation in work group and task group meetings.
- Review New Project Development requests and make recommendations to the Standardization Co-Chairs.
- Review and recommend changes to the implementation of standards development and regulatory processes, such as those related to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), the Medicare Modernization Act (MMA), the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act (HCERA).
- Continue to maintain the Data Dictionary, External Code List (ECL) and Emergency ECL Addendums.
- Monitor MC task groups to ensure they are tracking scope, goals and deliverables. Disband task groups that have completed their work.
- Review and adjudicate all Data Element Request Forms (DERFs).
- Adjudicate ballots pertaining to standards for which this work group is responsible.
- Analyze, develop and execute webinar opportunities for MC in coordination with Education Programs staff.
- Resolve conflicts identified by staff in the Definitions, Entities and Workflow documents.