The Florida Agency for Health Care Administration announced it will be distributing an additional 2,000 PDAs
to Medicaid physicians throughout the state.
This deployment will increase the number of physicians using the PDAs distributed by ACHA to 3,000. The effort is
designed to reduce fraud, enhance patient safety by providing real-time data and drive down medication costs by
better utilization of prescriptions.
The PDAs access Medicaid’s preferred drug list, patient-specific prescription histories, clinical pharmacology
drug information and drug interaction screening tools.
The system also provides a 60-day history of all Medicaid drugs dispensed to a specific patient regardless of
prescriber, which allows physicians to better monitor patient medications.
