Doug,
>>Pharmacies fear is that those that are missing will be deemed to have been
>>used as part of a fraud by the pharmacy. So send in the lot.
>
>How can a prescription be used as part of a fraud if it was NOT
>used to prescribe a drug?
>
>I would have thought that only prescription forms that have been
>used to prescribe a drug can be used in this way.
>ie. an expensive drug is prescribed and then NOT dispensed, but is
>then claimed as having been dispensed.
As I understand it, the pharmacy fraud that would lead to a prescription not
being presented for payment would be to collect the £5.80 prescription tax
on a script for say 15 amoxycillin 250mg, pocket the money and destroy the
script.
If those scripts supplied to doctors are being counted, and those presented
for payment to the PPA differ in number someone is going to think the above
has occurred. So some pharmacies are covering themselves by sending in the
blank scripts to the PPA.
Regards
Jeff Green
Community Locum and Consultant Pharmacist
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