A description of the drug tiers used by the formulary and how those tiers implement copay and coinsurance amounts. Drug tiers do not have any inherent meaning that is consistent across all formularies. Rather, each tier is defined using this element.

Unique id for the element within a resource (for internal references). This may be any string value that does not contain spaces.

May be used to represent additional information that is not part of the basic definition of the element. To make the use of extensions safe and manageable, there is a strict set of governance applied to the definition and use of extensions. Though any implementer can define an extension, there is a set of requirements that SHALL be met as part of the definition of the extension.

There can be no stigma associated with the use of extensions by any application, project, or standard - regardless of the institution or jurisdiction that uses or defines the extensions. The use of extensions is what allows the FHIR specification to retain a core level of simplicity for everyone.

A code that describes the coverage status of a drug in a health plan (e.g., preferred generic, specialty, etc.)

A Boolean indication of whether this drug tier supports a mail order pharmacy option

Definition of the patients responsibility for a portion of the cost not covered by insurance for a particular pharmacy type within a drug tier

Source of the definition for the extension code - a logical name or a URL.

The definition may point directly to a computable or human-readable definition of the extensibility codes, or it may be a logical URI as declared in some other specification. The definition SHALL be a URI for the Structure Definition defining the extension.

Value of extension - must be one of a constrained set of the data types (see Extensibility for a list).