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They all have been watching for a long long while. If you have been given a narcotic of any sort you are in a database, how often you have been prescribed, If you have went to multiple Drs asking for meds, tracking Dr Shopping, Tracking to see if you are taking more often than prescribed or possibly selling your meds. The insurance companies keep a running track as well. This would just make it easier for them to do such.

This is not just done with narcotics. My wife and I found out it is done with insulin as well. She was accused of taking more insulin than prescribed and was told it was either that or she must be selling her insulin. My wife told them NO! This month we had 5 family members that had birthdays and I eat some cake at each and had to take more insulin than usual. Even though she had more refills on file the pharmacy refused to refill her insulin because she was 4 days early on a refill which for a type 1 diabetic with no insulin can be very deadly. She then had to borrow some from another family member which means she broke the law and took a prescription drug that is not hers. It was either that or or do without. We have run across this scenario more than once in 18 years.

Yes. Insulin can be very expensive for lower income families. I know of people who are on Medicare who have to pay $400 to $500 per month for their insulin. So I assume that there could be a pretty robust black market for it.

Hilldale High School..??

Yes

Fantastic idea! A way to insure schizophrenics and other mental patients take required meds. You know, the ones that mental hospitals keep releasing.

They need more work to prove efficacy, but this technoligy could be effective keeping some mental patient stable.


Things to discuss:

For other patients, why go to the doc if you're not going to take your prescriptions?

Why would insurance pay for treatment and drugs if you're not going to take them?

Privacy concerns.*


* not for a lot of you that already carry a cellphone everywhere and the really paranoid that already have secret chips embedded in their heads.

For other patients, why go to the doc if you're not going to take your prescriptions? I would say depends on the medication. Not all medications are a (must take all) allot of them are "As needed" A good example is I have had pain meds that I only take if it is absolutely a must and I am talking about hurting for say 3 weeks no sleep and have to have some relief other than eating a bullet so in the end I do have quite a few meds sitting around that I have not taken all of them. Same for lovenox injections. I was sitting on 30 injections because what came in the prescription was not needed. My coumadin kicked in better than the Dr or I expected.

Why would insurance pay for treatment and drugs if you're not going to take them? I would say that due to the above and the fact that everybody is so different in drug reaction, drug efficiency, shelf life ect one really does not know if 30 pills is 20 to many or if 30 is not enough. It is very rare I take narcotics. A prime example is I can take a butt load of hydrocodone and it does not affect me in the least. Give to someone else and in 20 min they zonked out for half a day. Give my grandmother propofol or diprivan and she's down for days. Give it to me and as soon as the IV is stopped I am up in 5 to 8 minutes and fully functional. I am the only one in my family that Zpack an antibiotic will work for. The rest of my family you mine as well give them M&M's. Also this brings to mind are we asking about life long drugs or just immediate care say antibiotics for strep or all of it?

A way to insure schizophrenics and other mental patients take required meds. You know, the ones that mental hospitals keep releasing. This brings to question that if a patient is released then do they not have the right just like you and I to refuse medical treatment meaning not taking a prescribed medication by choice? When you say insure do you mean insure as in by a law that they have to take it? or as in insure they do take it so if they don't then insurance quits paying for any of their medical treatment, Drs refuse then to see the patient due to they now think the patient is going AMA and then of course left back at square one with can't go back to mental hospital due to no insurance now and also insurance won't pay for med since patient is not taking the med as prescribed and thus same issue is still in play. We then have schizophrenics and other mental patients now not getting required meds needed running the streets.

I just kind of fear that this as another possible way for the Hospital Facilities, Big Pharma, Insurance companies, to grab you by the balls if you do not agree with the treatment given or how it's given. I worry they will use this tech. to squeeze ya nuts if you don't play how THEY see fit. I feel it will come down to an ultimatum, "You take it or we quit paying for any and all treatment." Then you are stuck. You can't search out a treatment that suits you because now you can't afford to self pay which most Drs will not take by the way. Insurance refuses to pay because you did not take the pills that you know your body does not deal with very well but the Dr will not listen. Boy I got a story about that one but I will save for a later date. From the sounds of it though FDA says great so I guess we will see.

I don't beat up homeless people... or walk in their pee. And I've had the hep vaccine.

Might be a good thing,some of missed taking your quetiapine today.

Pshh... like you have access.
Now get back to your pooping probe. We need to track you!

is this the wife that drives you to the Cigar events at the local shpos?

He's deaf, too ya know...

Racket to get out of paying insurance claims due to people not taking their meds.

Yes sir it is, This is why the Oh **** Bar on my side of the car is almost wore out!