(healthcare) A list of drugs, created by health insurers, hospitals, or prescription drug plans, that defines how costs for any drug are shared between patient and health care provider, typically broken down by tiers such as preferred generics with lowest copay, or preferred brand with higher copay, or non-preferred brand and not covered tiers with the highest cost to the patient.
Obsolete spelling of prescription [(medicine, pharmacy, pharmacology) A written order from an authorized medical practitioner for provision of a medicine or other treatment, such as (ophthalmology) the specific lenses needed for a pair of glasses.]
(nonstandard) Alternative spelling of recipe [(medicine, archaic) A formula for preparing or using a medicine; a prescription; also, a medicine prepared from such instructions.]
(medicine) Prescription notation: The stated amount of each of the substances is to be used in the compounding of the prescription
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