Two Connecticut retailpharmacies
must pay $90,000 in fines for failing to verify prescriptions and inventory controlled drugs they dispensed, federal authorities say.
must pay $90,000 in fines for failing to verify prescriptions and inventory controlled drugs they dispensed, federal authorities say.
Howe's Pharmacy, 78 Broad St., Milford agreed to pay $50,000 and Nelson's Pharmacy, 153 Maple St., in Naugatuck will remit $40,000 for violating the federal Controlled Substances Act, the Connecticut U.S. Attorney's said Wednesday.
According to investigators, Howe's pharmacists filled prescriptions without ensuring they were issued for a medically appropriate reason; failed to verify that prescriptions issued for Schedule II controlled substances bore a prescribing physician's signature; failed to ensure that a filled prescription contained the federally issued code of the authorizing medical practitioner; filled a prescription for "office use" rather than issuing a prescription to an identifiable person; and, in several instances, filled a postdated prescription.
Nelson's, investigators said, failed to ensure that prescriptions it filled contained an authorized practitioner's federally issued code; and failed to account for accurate inventories of Oxycodone tablets. Oxycodone is a pain medicine that can become addictive through overuse.
that can become addictive through overuse.
Howe's and Nelson's couldn't be immediately reached Wednesday for comment.
quoted from HartfordBusiness.com
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