tci Part B Insider - 2004 Issue 20

BEWARE OUT-OF-STATE PRESCRIPTIONS

Beware of writing a prescription for a patient living in another state, especially if you're not licensed in the patient's state. You could be opening up a massive can of worms, warns attorney Wayne Miller. "Really, doctors have to look both at the jurisdiction they're licensed in and the jurisdiction they're prescribing in," he notes. State laws may differ on whether a doctor can issue a refill for patients whom she's seen for years without seeing the patient once again, notes attorney Robert Markette. But if a patient has moved to another state and keeps insisting on receiving...

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