Get Certified

Surescripts certification adds real value to an e-prescribing or EMR product.  E-prescribing is a key component of Meaningful Use as described in the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH).

Get certified for:

Prescription Benefit

• Eligibility/Formulary - the ability to request and receive eligibility and formulary information from payers and PBMs.
• Reporting - the ability to provide utilization summaries for the prescription benefit service.

Medication History

• Medication History  - the ability to request and receive prescription history from community pharmacies as well as patient medication claims history from payers and pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs).

Prescription Routing

• New Prescriptions (retail pharmacy) - the ability to route new prescriptions to community pharmacies.
• New Prescriptions (mail-order pharmacy) - the ability to route new prescriptions to mail order pharmacies.
• Prescription Renewals (retail pharmacy) - the ability to electronically route prescription renewal requests and responses with community pharmacies.
• Prescription Renewals (mail-order pharmacy) - the ability to electronically route prescription renewal requests and responses with mail order pharmacies.

Result: The availability of this information at the point of care allows prescribers to determine the most clinically appropriate and cost effective medication for the patient.

Surescripts Solution Provider status is granted to a vendor for a product that has been certified for all three Surescripts services (Prescription Benefit, Prescription History, Prescription Routing) and supporting message types.

Surescripts Gold Solution Provider status is granted to a vendor and product that achieves benchmarks which signal a higher level commitment to e-prescribing, customer support and successful customer implementations.

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Surescripts certification promotes a safer and more efficient prescribing process that leaves more time for patient counseling and other revenue-producing opportunities.

Get certified for:

Prescription Routing: Allows pharmacy software to receive new prescriptions as well as send and receive prescription renewal requests and authorizations.


Result: Improved patient safety, less time on paperwork and re-keying, and "cleaner" scripts which require fewer callbacks for clarification.

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Surescripts certification allows payers to assist prescribers in making more informed clinical decisions and prescribing the most cost-effective medication.

Get certified for:

Prescription Benefit: Allows payers and PBMs to respond to requests for eligibility and formulary from prescribers using certified software.

Medication History: Allows payers and PBMs to respond to requests for medication claims history from prescribers using certified software.

Prescription Routing: Allows mail order pharmacies to process new prescriptions and prescription renewals from prescribers using certified software.

Result: Tighter formulary compliance, increased generic substitution rates, less therapeutic duplication, enhanced data collection capabilities, greater control over routing of prescriptions, direct delivery of DUR messaging to prescribers.

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Surescripts certifies software & connectivity systems for access to the Medication History for Acute service which allows prescribers and authorized staff in acute settings to query and receive aggregated details for up to a year's worth of patient prescription history.  Incorporating our service within your software allows your clients to request patient prescription history from participating payers and pharmacies.

Currently, the service represents 220 million member records contained within the MPI or approximately 2.1 billion prescriptions with existing PBM and retail pharmacy participation.  This service / functionality was implemented in 2006 following the Joint Commission report on medication errors in hospitals and resulting focus on improving medication reconciliation and medication management.   The service provides access to real-time, combined pharmacy claims and pharmacy fill data for a patient and an accurate and longitudinal record of a patient's prescription history and adherence to their chronic medication regiment.

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In 2007, the Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology (CCHIT) selected Surescripts as one of the health information exchanges to certify e-prescribing interoperability for electronic health record (EHR) systems and e-prescribing software. Vendors of ambulatory (office-based) EHR/e-prescribing products can satisfy the CCHIT certification requirements for electronic prescribing and sharing of prescription information by completing certification for the following Surescripts services:

Prescription Benefit - provides prescribers with real-time, electronic access to information from patient drug plans.

Medication History - allows prescribers to electronically access patient medication history from pharmacies and payers.

Prescription Routing - facilitates the electronic transmission of new prescriptions from physician to pharmacist; enables physicians to electronically receive and respond to refill authorizations from pharmacies.