How can I legally fill two scripts from two doctors for the same medication at the same time?
Question by imrainful: How can I legally fill two scripts from two doctors for the same medication at the same time?
I received a script for 90x1mg Klonopin a month with 3 refills from one doctor, and two weeks later a script for 120x1mg clonazepam (generic Klonopin) with 3 refills from a different doc because the first one was becoming senile. Is it legal to fill both every month since they are different scripts (one is for generic, one is for brand name; one is for 90 a month, the other for 120)? If it is not “legal,” what would be the best way to do it (i.e. fill at different pharmacies obviously, one with insurance the other paid with cash)? This is a schedule IV drug. And any answer that is similar to “Why do you want to fill both scripts? Are you addicted? Maybe you should seek help…” will be ignored. But any other advice is welcome 🙂
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Answer by Curry
No, I don’t believe you can; any reputable pharmacist would certainly question it and communicate with one or both physicians. You could try filling them at 2 different pharmacies, but I highly doubt your insurance company would cover both. Either way, it’s illegal.
Answer by Yaybob
It is not legal in most or all states to fill multiple prescriptions for the same controlled drug from multiple physicians. This is called doctor shopping and is being prosecuted. There is no legitimate reason to engage in this behavior, so it is assumed that the reason a person is seeking controlled medications (abuse potential) is to abuse or distribute the drugs, or to take them for longer than the doctor wants to prescribe them.
It’s worse if you go to separate pharmacies or try to pay with one using insurance and the other out of pocket as that is an admission that you knew that you had to hide this behavior. And it’s even worse if both prescriptions are paid for by insurance. That’s insurance fraud since they cannot both be legitimate. And if the insurance is Medicaid, well, you don’t want to know. But the Medicaid fraud department is not somebody that you want a visit from.
It’s a good thing you asked.
From http://www.talkleft.com/story/2006/04/28/577/29841
“The Palm Beach Sheriff’s office announced today that Rush Limbaugh turned himself in on an arrest warrant for prescription fraud charges connected to the doctor-shopping charges. He was there for an hour and posted a $ 3,000.00 bond.”
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_shopping
“The concept of doctor shopping relates to a patient’s addiction to, or reliance on, certain prescription drugs or other medical treatment. Usually a patient will be treated by their normal physician and be prescribed a drug that is necessary for the legitimate treatment of their current medical condition. Once that condition has been successfully treated however, most conscientious physicians will not continue to provide their patients with the medications that they were taking. These patients will now actively seek out other physicians to obtain more of the same medication, often by faking or exaggerating the extent of their true condition, in order to feed their addiction to that drug”
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