Calling in prescriptions using someone else's NPI

[flightdoc09]

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Question for those of y'all in retail, how do you determine if someone calling in a prescription is a legit physician and not just someone that googled that physician's NPI?

Also, it has been a while since I have used a paper script, but did those require an NPI on them? I don't think they did.

 

[CetiAlphaFive]

Question for those of y'all in retail, how do you determine if someone calling in a prescription is a legit physician and not just someone that googled that physician's NPI?

Also, it has been a while since I have used a paper script, but did those require an NPI on them? I don't think they did.

Spidey senses, basically.
There are a lot of unspoken rules.

 

[rph3664]

Spidey senses, basically.
There are a lot of unspoken rules.

Same way you could tell if a paper script was "real" or not.

 

[flightdoc09]

Same way you could tell if a paper script was "real" or not.

Interesting. Because I grew up in mostly a digital prescription world. When I had to write paper scripts I was always looking up how to do it to make sure I was doing it right, stuff was sometimes out of order.

 

[RxPreceptor]

Always be suspicious of the combination of brand medications, government/state insurance, & patient profile with bare/minimal/no history.

Recently there has been a rise in fake GLP-1 scripts (even electronic) with California prescribers and “patients” aggressively requesting billing to goodrx or Trump fund. If you get a chance to actually talk to one of these “prescribers”, ask them some seemingly simple questions, you can tell they don’t sound like actual prescribers by how god awful their word choice/vocabulary is