AG Indiana Greg Zoeller
Do you know what happens when the state removes a MANDATORY urine testing program … watch for them to institute VOLUNTARY GUIDELINES…and prescribers not following those guidelines will be hassled for not following “best practices” another BITTER PILL for the residents of Indiana
http://aclu-in.org/list-of-all-current-litigation/261-list-of-all-litigation-november-11-2014
Wierciak v. The Individual Members of the Medical Licensing Board of Indiana (U.S. Dist. Ct. — So. Dist. of Indiana) [Filed 1/14]
A new rule requires that all patients taking certain levels of opioid medication for 3 months or more must agree to be drug tested at least once a year. This class action challenges the rule as violating the Fourth Amendment. The Medical Licensing Board is issuing a proposed regulation that will remove the State-mandated requirement that patients take the drug tests.
ATTORNEY(S): Kenneth J. Falk, Gavin M. Rose
Filed under: General Problems
I have seen drug tests cost patients and insurance providers up to $2200.00 every month!
Is this really necessary? It’s obviously a cash cow for BIG corp. pain clinics. The drug tests cost more than an office visit and more than most procedures.
Pain patients have no privacy nor rights anymore. Exploitation and discrimination is how they are treated.
VA tests every month. Nationwide.
But I bet the drug tests don’t cost several hundred dollars out of pocket
YES!!! I say he ACLU keep up against the.voluntary harrassnment guidielines too!! Unfortunately the GOP of this state has turned into a bunch of sore losing 2yr olds who throw tantrums every time they dont get their way.Huge case in point when the Dem won the State superintendent with way more votes than the govenor and now the GOP supermajority want to strip her of her power and nullify our votes especially those of us who crossed party lines to vote for her common sense approach to schools. Its disgraceful
I fail to see what this law hopes to accomplish. It doesn’t even prove that the drugs are being used and not diverted, because if people were doing that they could just take the drugs a couple days before their appointment, test appropriately, and go sell the rest of the drugs the rest of the year.
My own doctor hates having to do this test, he hates having to charge his patients for it. The test costs 70 or 80 bucks and it’s not covered by most of his patients’ insurance. It’s about as effective as urine testing medicaid/food stamp recipients so they can receive their food and medicine.
IMO… obviously you do not have a “bureaucratic mindset” where common sense does not necessarily need to be considered when passing laws.
And are these so called drug tests done like DOT drug tests with chain of custody forms and sent off to a lab or are they the type where one pees into a cup and one reads a line on the absorbant ‘paper’ inside the cup. Those types are so inaccurate and the false positives and negatives are ridiculous. The same can be said if the lab is not up to snuff if they don’t keep their equipment properly calibrated and flushed between each sample. I have seen many false positves when my dad’s toxicology technicicans in training did not properly prepare the GC or the HPLC machines correctly