Thursday, December 12, 2013

US Attorney files civil charges against Howe's Pharmacy" one claim for filling prescription for "office use' rather than identifing a person--will pay a $50,000 fine

The allegations against Howe’s Pharmacy, located at 78 Broad Street in Milford, include claims that pharmacists filled prescriptions without exercising their corresponding responsibility to ensure that the prescriptions were issued for a medically appropriate reason, failed to verify that prescriptions issued for Schedule II controlled substances contained the signature of a prescribing physician, failed to ensure that a filled prescription contained the DEA number 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.

read press release from US Attorney's office here

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