Re: new law for prescription pads?

top posted...

My pain doctor prints my methadone out by puter and then uses a stamp punch
that raises the
the paper.. dont know if I said that right but I think you know what I
mean. Has for the 4 years
that I have been going there.. Never got a hand written rx...

Ronnie

script
"Legend" <livinnow@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Sep 20, 3:19 pm, "Scott" <sc...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Here in NYS they have been using a new script for quite a while already.
The old Schedule II scripts were 3 copies that you took to the pharmacy.
The new ones are the same size as a regular script pad, but have a
special
background like a check to prevent photocopying and a special watermark.
I've seen the photocopies my Dr office makes of these and they show COPY
across each one. Also each script, I believe, has a unique ID or serial
number. Basically they took a lot of ideas that had been used on checks
and
make prescription pads out of them.

"Juba" <j...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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| rk <rks...@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message:
| p_adnZwb3YBX4WzbnZ2dnUVZ_tmhn...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
|
| > I missed part of it on the news and haven't been
| > able to find it. (stupid newspaper website!) anyhow,
| > on the noon news today they were talking about a
| > new law that's supposed to be going into effect about
| > ALL doctors in certain states needing a special prescription
| > pad to write certain types of prescriptions... well might be
| > all prescriptions. but they were focusing on "pain medications"
| > it's supposed to be another way of stopping ripped off
| > prescription pads. I caught that the doctor would have to
| > use an embosser and when you get it filled at the pharm, if
| > it doesn't have the emboss then they won't fill it and turn it
| > into the police for a possible stolen script pad. *rolls eyes*
| >
| > one way it's a good thing, on flip side, just more damn money
| > that's going to be passed onto us the patient!
| >
| > anyhow, anyone read, seen or heard about this? they said
| > it was starting in New York an by Nov 1, they said it would
| > be here in Ohio.. thats about all I caught on it.
| >
| > any info would be great.
| >
| > thanks
| >
| > rk
|
|
http://www.aafp.org/online/en/home/publications/news/news-now/practic...
| Congress is considering legislation that would lessen the impact of a
| newly passed law requiring physicians to start using electronic
| prescribing or tamper-resistant prescription pads for their Medicaid
| patients as of Oct. 1.
|
| Rep. Charlie Wilson, D-Ohio, introduced H. R. 3090, which would
change
| the law so that it applies only to Schedule II narcotic drugs.
| Meanwhile, Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, has introduced a similar bill,
| S.B. 2013, which would delay full implementation of the law until
April
| 2009. Under Brown's legislation, the new law would apply only to
| Schedule II drugs on Oct. 1; it would not pertain to all Medicaid
| prescriptions until April 2009.
|
| --
| Juba
|www.masterjuba.com
|
| Check out the PAYNE HERTZ blog
|http://paynehertz.blogspot.com
|
|

Scott,
I live in New York, too...and I've been noticing changes for years.
First, getting rid of the triplicate, then the other changes. Some
doctors don't even bother to use the older kinds of pads,
anymore...but now, they can prescribe non-controlled substances,
giving a 3-month supply at a time. My most recent Soma script was
like that-so, I guess it's not controlled, for all the talk. There
was talk as far back as at least 20 years-but, at least we have that!

A lot of doctors like the new system better. At first, I thought they
were going to allow benzo refills-but my shrink said no, and nothing
has changed since then. that's an anomaly in itself-benzos were never
raised, schedule-wise(they're mostly schedule 4). And, Librax-since
it was never on schedule 4-is exempt, although it is librium, in
combination with a stomach muscle relaxer. But, if a doctor prscribes
Librium, in the same amount, alone-it needs the special forms, and it
can't be refilled (Librax can be refilled 5 times, at least). So,
don't try and make sense out of these laws!



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