So the answer is going to depend on a number of factors: the laws of your state, the policies of the doctor, and the policies of your insurance.
You will not be able to get your current month’s rx (25 pills) back.
I don’t imagine you will lose the next two months, however.
First of all, no pharmacy should be dispensing CII without valid photo ID, so I doubt they will be able to fill your next two months’ rx’s.
Hopefully South Carolina has a database in place that allows rx’s To be tracked such that your doctor will be willing to write a new rx without having to worry about the old ones being filled.
In California, for example, we have CURES, a CDS dispensing database that will allow a physician to report individually lost or stolen rx’s. If those rx’s show up at a pharmacy to be filled, they obviously will not be and the police will be called.
Before dispensing CDS, a CURES report is run which checks both what the patient has received in terms of CDS rx’s and Ensures the rx is valid (ie legitime, not stolen, and not previously filled).
I imagine (but do not know) that the DOJ would force states to have such a system.
If that’s the case, you should be fine.
You will be subject to additional scrutiny and your doctor likely will never re-write an rx again in the future.
