Citizens’ Council for Health Freedom
Health Freedom Minute November 11, 2011
Tracking Your Prescription Pick-Up Welcome to the Health Freedom Minute. This is Twila Brase, president of Citizensʼ Council for Health Freedom. Do you have a prescription waiting at the pharmacy? Electronic prescribing has given researchers and others the ability to know if you have picked up your prescription or left it on the shelf. One study evaluated more than 423,000 e-prescriptions written in 2008 by 3,634 doctors for more than 280,000 patients from all 50 states. Researchers matched prescriptions with insurance claims or lack of claims to identify who didnʼt pick up their meds. They found 24 percent of patients didnʼt get their prescriptions. Some states mandate electronic prescribing. If you want to keep your decisions private, get a paper prescription and fill it when and if and where you want to. Listen again at www.healthfreedomminute.net. Source: “One-Fourth of Patients Do Not Fill New Prescriptions, eRx Study Says,” Martha Kessler, BNA Health IT Law & Industry Report, October 27, 2011.
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