"Let Expire" for PTA Meds

Clinicians now have more options when completing discharge medication reconciliation for expired prior-to-admission (PTA) medications. There are two common situations in which a patient's PTA medications can be expired at the point of discharge medication reconciliation:

1. When the patient was admitted, the prescription had already expired, but admission medication reconciliation wasn't fully completed. If it had been completed and the medication marked as "Taking," a window would have appeared in which the admitting clinician could extend the end date, making it no longer expired.
2. The prescription expired during the patient's inpatient admission.

The new options allow the discharging physician to instruct the patient to keep doing what he's doing and follow-up with his PCP or the prescriber of the medication in question to determine whether to get a new prescription or stop taking the medication.

For expired medications that are NOT marked as long-term, the option to "Let Expire" (Clock Icon) is available. This does not create a new prescription and does not discontinue the medication.

The medication appears on the AVS in the "ASK YOUR DOCTOR" section, instructing the patient to ask "Should I take this medication?"

For medications marked as long-term, the option to "Continue" (Arrow Icon) is available. This does not create a new prescription and does not discontinue the medication. The medication remains on the patient's medication list.