[NPInfo] RE: Prescription pads questions

[Carla Anderson]

I use FileRx.com, and go to prescriptions, or a more direct site for the prescription pads  is RxPads.com.  They have regular and security blue pads. I found them super quick, easy to work with, and no preference regarding physician or NP. I believe the site is just down now for a few hours, but you can still go to it.  The phone number is 800 307 7717. Carla/Oregon

David Mittman <dmittman at comcast.net> wrote:  
Laura: Independence does not matter. This is a decision that someone makes
whether to sign us up or not, sometimes day to day basis. One sponsor says
yes, another no.
If this pad company will not cover us, ask them who their pharma sponsors
are. OR look at the docs pads that you work with and write the drug
companies that sponsor and ask to see their district managers (they will
come to where you practice) so that you may get a cogent answer as to why
they would want to pay for them and not us. When they say it is because
doctors prescriptions are measured, tell them you will not write their
products (everything else being equal). NO REASON we have to put up with
this behavior. Talk to the guys in the sales force. They will fix if they
realize you write their products.
Dave 

On 11/3/07 12:21 PM, "Thiem" wrote:

> Wow! I'm surprised that Medical Arts is not taking orders. I had some delay
> in getting mine due to the safety features but I had not heard that they
> weren't available.
> 
> The non-physician discrimination does not surprise me. Until we are entered
> into pharmacy databases as prescribers, independent of collaborating and
> supervising physicians, pharmaceutical companies will not be able to determine
> our prescribing patterns and, subsequently, the value of marketing to us.
> 
> Although you are independent in your state, there are so many of us who are
> not. There is not parity in our treatment.
> 
> Laura, NP
> 
> Anne Chamberlain wrote:
> Anne responding: 
> 
> Barb - I will check out Print Source. Didn't know about this one.
> 
> Laura - I already tried Medical Arts Press - they are currently not taken
> new orders "until further notice". Any other ideas I'd appreciate. I think
> what really bothers me is that we are prescribing all the medications out
> there just like the docs are, but yet Medi-Script refuses (via their
> pharmacy reps) to provide their service to us.
> 
> I will pay for them, if needed. That's actually not my issue. I guess my
> real concern is that Medi-Scripts and the drug companies are withholding
> product from me (and others) because we are NP's and not MD's. Seems
> wrong. 
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Carla R. Anderson, FNP-C
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