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Controlled Substance Dispensing Rule To Change Monday In Florida
December 28, 2017
Beginning Monday, January 1, pharmacies and physicians who dispense controlled substances will have just one day to report information to the statewide prescription-drug monitoring program.
Currently, pharmacies and physicians are required to report the information as soon as possible to the state but are given upward of seven days to comply with the reporting requirements.
The Legislature passed a bill in 2017 that trimmed the reporting time and required that reporting be done through the state-approved electronic reporting system.
The Legislature during the 2018 session is expected to pass legislation to help abate the state’s opioid epidemic, and lawmakers are considering whether to mandate that doctors use the database before prescribing controlled substances. The database was established to track the dispensing of prescribed controlled substances to provide information to physicians and to prevent the over-prescribing and diversion of such substances.
Most dispensers are required to report the information, though exemptions are provided if the controlled substances are dispensed by practitioners for one-time, 72-hour emergency supplies for patients. Exemptions also are made when controlled substances are dispensed in emergency rooms, rehabilitative hospitals, assisted living facilities or nursing homes, so long as they were ordered by treating physicians.
by The News Service of Florida
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7 Responses to “Controlled Substance Dispensing Rule To Change Monday In Florida”
This is all a knee-jerk reaction to people who can’t handle their dope! I’m a 100% disabled veteran and I am treated like a “junkie” by all the half-assed health providers around here. Even though my injuries have been well documented for over 35 years…no one ever bothers to look, even in the age of push a button, find everything out, computer world we live in. I have “offered” several of these “health providers” a much better understanding of the situation by allowing them firsthand to know what is is like to live 24/7 with pain and what that does to the WHOLE body and mind. I now have to go to pain doctor 3 times as much as before (say 2 years ago and prior) and I’m have been given 3 “random” urinalysis’ this year alone…Random my butt!!! This is a giant medicare/medical fraud issue that affects all of us. Here again the almighty dollar is actually the driving force behind what is going on…I don’t mean saving money, I mean those in power who are profitting off of this (and supplying too!)
I think Govt. has to much power to oversee Doctors,Unless you have constant pain like areas at Neck….Back…head ..joints like shoulder…knee, ankle & so on.Pain care works to allow a regular life.Many surgeries up to 50% dont work, but compound the problem.If one has prof of cronic pain Then quality of life is helped greatley.If people would just follow Dr.s orders, All would work.I know Im old yet pain management works for me to carry own With multi-Medical Problems. Use right then all are helped Leave Dr.s alone
More government regulation because some legislators have blinders. The simple fact is medical pot is making a huge difference in pain regulation in cancer patients throughout the nation where it has been approved, yet when docs have few options, opiates are all that is left. The people approved medical pot in Florida, yet these same legislators have fought the will of the people tooth and nail, and then have the audacity to further interfere with the doc/patient relationship by further burdening a physician with instantaneous reporting. Big Pharm owns the legislators and Congress, and the people who are ill are suffering because of politics and money. Blaming doctors for the problem is simply idiotic. A hospital or doctor after surgery cannot dispense medical pot from the pharmacy because of federal restrictive laws, so they give a patient opiates because they can be dispensed legally, despite the fact that they are bad for society. Insanity.
So will this stop er Drs from accusing innocent people of drug seeking? I personally can not take pain meds due to side effects. I am still treated like a drug seeker and have even been forced to take morphine, in tetanus shot or not get the tetanus shot at all….
There are many drug abusers who go from e.r. to e.r. being prescribed narcotics. They have them filled and may do it all again next month. However if a doctor or hospital knows that they have just gotten a prescription filled they can refuse more to ten and put an alert in the system faster. So yes, the singer the prescription is reported the better.
Bewildered, physicians and providers don’t make any more money for prescribing narcotics. They bill based on the complexity of the problem, the exam performed and the level of decision making involved. I can made just as much money prescribing a non narcotic medication as a narcotic, so your comment makes no sense. Also, having it reported within 24 hours allows us to check eforce and see that the patient was just prescribed narcotics the day prior, and would allow me to know that the patient is drug seeking, as these patients can often be very convincing and deceptive, so it will help the providers who are trying to do the right thing for their patients.
A change in reporting time will make no difference. As long as the profit margin is there physicians will prescribe controlled substances for anyone. Our healthcare system is driven by the amount of money it generates – the welfare of patients is secondary.