Benzos Getting vicodin and fentanyl prescription while on suboxone

[maryland37]

If a person fills a prescription for Suboxone and then fills a prescription for other opiates soon after will insurance send a letter to the prescribing doctors (2 different doctors) alerting them that the person filled both prescriptions? Basically, will they get busted for going to two different doctors and getting these meds?

 

[sekio]

Probably.

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[Tommyboy]

If a person fills a prescription for Suboxone and then fills a prescription for other opiates soon after will insurance send a letter to the prescribing doctors (2 different doctors) alerting them that the person filled both prescriptions? Basically, will they get busted for going to two different doctors and getting these meds?

A lot of suboxone doctors now run your name through the prescription monitoring database to make sure that you are not seeing other doctors and getting other meds. My suboxone would type my name into the database before writing out my prescription each time, and it would show every prescription I got filled in the past year or so. It depends on the state you are in, but some databases go back 2 years and some go back as far as 5 years. That doesn't necessarily mean it will be able to see everything that far back, but it will start going that far back starting with when the program was implemented which in most states was a few years ago, so it will only start purging that data once it's been used for that long.

Also a lot of regular doctors are using this system now. I went into a walk-in clinic a month or so ago and the doctor pulled up my info on the computer and when he walked out of the room I had myself a looky and saw that it listed all of my prescriptions in the past year or so, and it's not even like I went in there for pain meds, just an appointment for sinus problems. I had asked the doctor if he could also write me a prescription for a skin cream I got a year or two ago and he was able to find it in the system and I didn't even get it from that clinic the first time so all the systems in the state are connected.

The bottom line is don't try getting these different prescriptions if you are not prepared to lose them. If you are on suboxone then don't expect to be prescribed any pain meds for a few years because most doctors are now going to be checking what prescriptions you've gotten in the past couple of years and so they probably won't script you opioid pain killers if they see that you were on suboxone. You might be able to get away with it once but the system is going to catch up to you shortly so it's not worth it.

Check out this link. It shows how the prescription monitoring program works in each state, and includes how often the data is entered into the system, and how long the data is kept for.