Any pharmacy that denies a valid prescription for any reason (outside of outright fraud) should be charged with practicing medicine without a license and shut down immediately.
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Don’t get your hopes up. Pharmacists reserve the legal right to deny any prescription for any reason. Fear of misuse, abuse, even personal morality issues with the med in question; it doesn’t matter all reasons and more are legal and valid. The odds of this going anywhere are about the same as me walking on water.
Source- worked as a pharm tech years ago in college
Depends on the state in which the refusal happens how it is handled. It is complicated and can cost the pharmacy lots of money. The broad approach is they can refuse for false, fraudulent or unlawful scripts and moral objections. Some states require the pharmacists to refer the patient to another pharmacy that will fill the prescription when a religious objection arises.
The catch 22 involves the ADA. If the patient involved is covered under the ADA. So, in ADA cases, does the pharmacist’s right to decline to provide a legally prescribed medication go out the window?
Rite Aid, Walgreens, and CVS have already paid big fines for not filling a script for a person that fell under the ADA. The answer is yes in most cases. Just a note everyone on Medicare disability and who are on Medicare are in that protected group as well. So it depends.
True. However, several years ago Walmart got in trouble for Pharmacists refusing to fill Plan B. Essentially, it went to court and Walmart/Pharmacist were supposed to get medicine to patient bc it was a valid script.
The law dont mean shit. Its how the judge rules.