To initiate a prescription medication, you will need an appointment with our psychiatrist. After conducting an assessment and exploring your goals, you and the psychiatrist will discuss treatment options. If you are given a prescription, there are choices for how it is written. Our psychiatrist can send it electronically to your pharmacy, call it in to your pharmacy, fax it to your pharmacy, or give you a paper script. Schedule II medications must be sent electronically per Ohio law. Our office does NOT use Epic to send scripts.

 

There are a few factors outside of APWI that you may wish to consider:

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After a prescription is sent to the pharmacy, what happens to that information is under the control of the pharmacy, not the provider who issued the prescription.

Some pharmacies do have their information linked to Ohio Health Information Partnership, and medications dispensed from them may appear on the medication reconciliation tab in Epic (or similar EHRs) if you have an existing chart there. However, there should not be a diagnosis associated with the medication.

 

Payment for medications dispensed is handled between you and the pharmacy. If you choose to use your insurance company to pay for the medication, information regarding the medication will be submitted to your insurance company from the pharmacy, but not from APWI. If you would like to avoid using your insurance to pay for your medication, be sure to inform the pharmacy of this preference.