Say you see a pain management doctor (in Alabama) and you’re legit, not a junkie, and he writes you a Rx for X?
Friday, June 4th, 2010 at
11:36 pm
Say you see a pain management doctor (in Alabama) and you're legit, not a junkie, and he writes you a Rx for XYZ. Then you go see an urologist and he writes you the same Rx for your kidney stones that your pain management doctor writes. Minus all the insurance stuff, is there an actual way for the pain management doctor to see that your urologist wrote you that same Rx? I don't want to get in trouble here.
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It depends. In many states now – including where I am – we have some form of prescription monitoring via the internet. I can tell what narcotic prescriptions have been filled by what pharmacy, what doctor and when on anybody that I see. This – so far – is only state by state. Soon we will be able to check nationally as well.
So the short answer is "yes" – your pain doctor can possibly tell.
Here’s another point, though….every single Pain Management Clinic (that is legitimate, that is) had you sign a Pain Management Contract on your first visit. These are all pretty uniform. Somewhere in there it states that you will ONLY get narcotic pain medications from THEM and no one else – FOR ANY REASON. Amongst many other things – no early refills, no "smoeone stole my meds" excuses, etc. If this is the case – you have violated your contract and COULD be released by the clinic.
If you are totally legit – as you claim – and innocently got the script, I would tell the Pain doctor IMMEDIATELY.
Besides – why did you accept the script from the Urologist in the first place? Didn’t you say: "hey, wait a minute, I already have this same medicine from my Pain doctor?"
unless the doctors in alabama have electronic medical records with access to all your records
regardless of which doctor you saw , the answer would be no. of course, your insurance won’t
pay twice for the same medication during the same time period.
There’s a good chance they won’t be able to tell. You could simply call them and let them know, though. And as the first person said, your insurance won’t let you fill two of the same script at the same time anyway. You won’t get in trouble as long as you’re not trying to cheat the system to get more pills.
1] you should be telling ALL your doctors ALL the meds you are on – a] some may interact badly, and
b] you should not double up your meds
2] both your doctors will be ‘unhappy’ if they find out you have not revealed all your meds etc to them [ they could refuse to treat you for non-compliance ]
3] pharmacist will also find out about double meds