Medication Management Services are a spectrum of patient-centered, pharmacist-provided, collaborative services focusing on medication appropriateness, effectiveness, safety, and adherence to improve health outcomes. It is a service that is individualized for a specific patient, focusing on their needs and concerns, which also involves the patient in the care process.
- Calls of faxes prescription refills will NOT be accepted nor processed
- All refill requests must be submitted through your Patient Portal.
- Providers give enough refills to make it to your next scheduled appointment. You must book an appointment if you have missed or canceled. a partial refill of the requested medication may be given until that upcoming appointment at the doctor’s discretion
- Please allow 3 business days to process the refill request. Refills after 3:00 pm will be reviewed the next business day
- The practice reserves the right to deny any refill requests if the provider suspects abuse or patients are not taking the medication as prescribed
- First psychiatric follow-up (FU) visits will be scheduled for the next two (2) weeks or the next available after the initial appointment
- Refill will only be provided to patients who an Impireum clinician saw within the last three (3) months.
- Medications will not be changed or adjusted without an appointment
- Refills will NOT be given to patients who are no-shows for a follow-up appointment
- Patients on controlled substances will NOT be provided refills or bridge prescriptions until they are seen.
- A bridge prescription can be prescribed until the next available appointment
- Parents must be present during appointments for all patients under 18 years old
- Benzos will be limited to 6 weeks or less
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- Patients with sedative dependence should be tapered off the drug or offered referral to inpatient treatment
- Sleeping pills (Z drugs) will be limited to 20 days a month
- Stimulants and sedatives will be limited to one stimulant or one sedative, not both
- One dose of a long-acting stimulant is preferable to instant-release stimulants, or a long-acting dose plus an instant release
- We recommend not waiting until the last minute.