JUMPING TO CONCLUSIONS AT CVS ?

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   Judy Hook, on March 29, 2019 at 3:41 pm said:

   I surely understand. I used CVS for MANY years for my pain meds. Two or three years ago, the pharmacist told me that CVS will no longer be filling prescriptions for THESE medications. The other pharmacist came out and said, “my brother has a pharmacy a few miles away, go and speak with him.” I did. What a fine man. He has been filling my prescriptions ever since. Of course, my Dr. of 20 yrs, has been reducing, tapering, and removing my meds—so I’m in pain because he’s afraid!!! I Asked Doc if the pain management doctors could get together and fight this thing? He said, “Well, we meet every year.” Oh, Mercy!

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   Dr. Darryl George, on March 20, 2019 at 8:43 pm said:

   I have heard her complaint so often regarding the judgmental actions of pharmacy staff workers. They want diagnosis codes on prescriptions, yet they don’t even have coding books to interpret the codes, yet they still judge based on their ignorance; because if you don’t know the codes, medical history of the patient, and more, you are clearly ignorant, biased, and discriminatory. Unfortunately for this patient, by going to another pharmacy to fill her prescriptions, it may be interpreted by other providers as pharmacy hopping, trying to get her pills early, etc. because they refuse to look at pill counts, fill dates, and more. Other biased providers will use “pharmacies” as a red flag to maybe deny her refills in the future. They don’t ask what happened. They don’t realize that supply issues could have created the need to go elsewhere. Pharmacies routinely dispense “partial” fills of pain medications and then fill the rest when they get their shipment. Despite the fact that it is illegal per federal regulations, the majority of pharmacies do it anyways to help patients. It seems when the money works towards their advantage, all is well and good.

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     Sky, on March 22, 2019 at 1:21 am said:

     It is legal to fill a partial prescription for schedule 2 medications as long as the pharmacy is able to fill the entire prescription within three business days. At least this is true in Illinois. I can’t speak to the laws in other states..

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