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Short cycle fill
A special dispensing requirement for long term care, named in the FA protocol as an example of LTC dispensing rules CMS reviews.
Compliance standard 1.3 checks that special requirements for long term care dispensing, such as short cycle fill, are administered properly. Rejections for short cycle fill are also one of the sampling criteria for Table 1.
Source: FA protocol, compliance standards 1.1 and 1.3, PDF pp. 5-6.