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Wednesday, October 04, 2006About 2,300 retail and mail-order pharmacies that sell to Ohio patients will be required to electronically report prescription sales twice a month to create the database, which has the ability to store 30 million to 35 million prescriptions. Doctors and pharmacists then will be able to get a report via the Internet to see if patients are visiting multiple physicians and pharmacies to obtain the same types of drugs - commonly called doctor shopping. And law enforcement will be more easily able to uncover criminal activity. I recently discovered that one of my suspected liars was indeed lying when her insurance company sent me a profile showing she had been going to other doctors in my neighborhood every two weeks for the same drug. I began to suspect her when she stopped by two weeks after her initial visit and said she needed her Adderall refilled two weeks early because she was going to Myrtle Beach and wouldn't be in town when it ran out. I told her she didn't need to worry about treating attention deficit disorder while lying on a beach. It would be OK if she missed a few doses. It would have been nice to be able to look her up during her initial visit when she requested refills to begin with. Now that they have their database, will they ease up on letting doctors send prescriptions to the pharmacy electronically? posted by Sydney on 10/04/2006 07:38:00 PM 0 comments 0 Comments: |
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