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At Last, Florida Looks at Top Drug Prescribers
When one doctor writes 96,685 prescriptions for mental health drugs in 21 months and bills Medicaid, what’s behind the numbers? That’s among the questions I asked after a whistleblower suggested Congress should look at high numbers of these prescriptions that might be perfectly legitimate but also might indicate problems that harm patients and taxpayers alike. The investigative news outlet ProPublica examined what happened in Florida when state officials started looking at top prescribers. The results are eye-opening. You can view the coverage here.
November 21, 2011
When one doctor writes 96,685 prescriptions for mental health drugs in 21 months and bills Medicaid, what’s behind the numbers? That’s among the questions I asked after a whistleblower suggested Congress should look at high numbers of these prescriptions that might be perfectly legitimate but also might indicate problems that harm patients and taxpayers alike. The investigative news outlet ProPublica examined what happened in Florida when state officials started looking at top prescribers. The results are eye-opening. You can view the coverage here.
November 21, 2011