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(35) We propose legislation that would prevent retail chains from offering rewards to patients who transfer prescriptions from other pharmacies to their pharmacy.
by Admin on Sun Oct 12, 2008 1:15 pm
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(35) We propose legislation that would prevent retail chains from offering rewards to patients who transfer prescriptions from other pharmacies to their pharmacy.
Reasons for the Action(s) / Pros and Cons:
Pros: Our proposal would be a giant step in the elimination of the use of multiple pharmacies. The reduction in the usage of polypharmcy would increase patient safety and usage of a centralized pharmacy would assist the pharmacist in identifying drug interactions. This is particularly important now that many chains are offering the $4 prescription list. If a drug is being billed to the $4 list it will not be billed to the patient’s insurance. When this happens a pharmacist outside of that chain will not receive a DUR response through the patient’s insurance company of a possible drug interaction. Instead of offering patients incentives from transferring prescriptions to a pharmacy we would like to see the stores offer incentives for having refills filled at the same store where the original was filled and for filling a refill in a timely fashion. The introduction of the incentive to fill the prescription in a timely fashion would help increase patient compliance. Overall benefit would be a drastic increase in patient safety.
Cons: From the business aspect of the retail chain, there could be the potential claim that our legislation would be bad for their business. This is why our legislation would promote chains to offer incentives to refill prescriptions at the same pharmacy and in a timely fashion
Marcus C. Babiak ; marcus.babiak@lecom.edu ; LECOM
(35) We propose legislation that would prevent retail chains from offering rewards to patients who transfer prescriptions from other pharmacies to their pharmacy.
Reasons for the Action(s) / Pros and Cons:
Pros: Our proposal would be a giant step in the elimination of the use of multiple pharmacies. The reduction in the usage of polypharmcy would increase patient safety and usage of a centralized pharmacy would assist the pharmacist in identifying drug interactions. This is particularly important now that many chains are offering the $4 prescription list. If a drug is being billed to the $4 list it will not be billed to the patient’s insurance. When this happens a pharmacist outside of that chain will not receive a DUR response through the patient’s insurance company of a possible drug interaction. Instead of offering patients incentives from transferring prescriptions to a pharmacy we would like to see the stores offer incentives for having refills filled at the same store where the original was filled and for filling a refill in a timely fashion. The introduction of the incentive to fill the prescription in a timely fashion would help increase patient compliance. Overall benefit would be a drastic increase in patient safety.
Cons: From the business aspect of the retail chain, there could be the potential claim that our legislation would be bad for their business. This is why our legislation would promote chains to offer incentives to refill prescriptions at the same pharmacy and in a timely fashion
Marcus C. Babiak ; marcus.babiak@lecom.edu ; LECOM