In regards to your concerns with pharmacies’ refusal to fill prescriptions, there is nothing in in this legislation that would prohibit the pharmacy from filling prescriptions. Please be advised that pharmacists are directed to exercise their independent professional judgment when filling prescriptions. Pharmacists are also required to monitor a patient’s drug therapy and to work with the patient’s prescribing health care provider. It is possible that the refusal to fill certain physician’s prescriptions is a policy of the pharmacy corporate office.
This is part of email from a director of a Board of Pharmacy… on a complaint of pts not being able to get their chronic pain meds.
How can a Pharmacist use his/her independent professional judgment and at the same time follow corporate policy..
Does that mean that the corporation is practicing pharmacy… which they are not and CANNOT be licensed to do..
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And the BOP is perfectly fine with it.. since they don’t have the authority.. is that just like “I’m not comfortable” that the Pharmacists use ? Since this BOP – last time I looked – was stacked full of corporate employed Pharmacists. Could that influence their interpretation of the practice act that they don’t have the authority ?
Thats what it sounds to me….so again they’re back to corporate blacklisting prescribers which means the pharmacist is unable to work with the patients prescriber?