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摘要

I would like to express my support for the points made by Martin Bennett in his letter titled"New instalment prescriptions putting contractors in a difficult position"(PJ,14 October,p449).We were also given advice earlier this year that,where several days'methadone supply was split into individual dose amounts,claims for each amount could be made on a separate line,and would be reimbursed as individual items.More recent advice has contradicted this and we have seen a significant reduction in our July prescription numbers as counted by the Prescription Pricing Division compared with the count submitted by our branches,which dispense large volumes of methadone.