PHARMACIST STEVE

Another CVS pt… where health is everything ?

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   Peon, on October 17, 2014 at 10:00 pm said:

   The question here is whether the NPI and DEA of the physician in question was valid. I had an incident where my companies software said a physicians license was invalid. I checked another source on the web and it said it was valid. I could never get the rx through the pharmacy system and I had to send the patient to another pharmacy. This could have been the case with CVS. Or, is CVS running an algorithm on all prescriptions from physicians and flagging certain physician’s as too high prescriber’s and invalidating the DEA? If CVS is invalidating these physicians DEA within their software system, then they are probably violating the law. It may make the DEA happy, but it is WRONG.

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     RalPh, on October 17, 2014 at 11:45 pm said:

     Definitely a HAPPY violation, too

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   boilerrph, on October 16, 2014 at 8:31 pm said:

   What they are practicing is anti ADA, discriminatory and by putting the doctors names in chainwide database without any inkling of wrongdoing (no medical board issues,CSR issues whatever) is slander and putting patients names in these databases where all can see is violating HIPPA as I bet people who see these chainwide ban lists have no treatment relationship with the patient and the computers are not in secured areas!!! How about innocent til proven guilty that is the standard in this country. GFP PAPERWORK , sending rejected scripts to DEA, ALSO violations from what i remember from my HIPPA training. I get ticked off hearing about the pharmacists who dont like the doctors pain treatment of the patient, so he/she demands changes or bullies the doctor to change it and im talking about a patient who has been on a pain treatment for quite some time with no issues or even goes as far to tell the patient ‘I dont care what the doctor wrote I’m only giving you half or reducing your dose’ WRONG ON SO MANY LEVELS!!!,. That is different than someone who gives you a script who is obviously allergic to it. Apparently many pharmacists have forgotten their pharmacist oath which putting the welfare of their patient first and relieving suffering. You are so worried about junkies, not all young people are junkies, young people are involved in devestating car accidents with lifetime damage, now we have returning young veterans with devestating war injuries that may not be visible like a missing limbs who may have to use your pharmacy, are you going to turn them away, remember they fought and bled for you. That will be the biggest publicity stunt in the negative any pharmacy can make. Cant wait to see that one. I suggest you go back to your texts and review opioid tolerance and dependence because I dont think a majority are addicts, just extremely poor pain control because there are too many opioidphobic pharmacists and corporates and politicians. Patients with true pain do not get euphoric, arent seeking the high…matter of fact they are able to be productive members of society. Get a backbone, gang up together and tell corporate to go blow. If you havent been watching the news, the nurses are getting backbones and demanding better isolation protection gear for ebola from their employers….and its beginning to to work. Pain patients I am one of a handful of RPh who support you, rant over..for now

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     RalPh, on October 16, 2014 at 9:42 pm said:

     You make great points, really. What do we do against the DEA? Judging by their stupid responses to comments in the hydrocodone rescheduling, they are not at all concerned with patient access and patients’ rights.

     I’ve got district managers telling us that if we dispense too many opiates, we’ll have to start checking PDMP for every controlled Rx forever.

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   RalPh, on October 16, 2014 at 4:58 pm said:

   Pharmacies need a system to avoid discrimination. Have limit of 25 big dispense oxycodone patients. Person 26 goes on a waiting list or something. That way, a system is set up that limits a pharmacy’s capricious refusals due to idiosyncratic or corporate dictate. Institutions with protocols help all parties to understand limitations. .. limitations that are DEA fault.

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