I dispensed a Crestor script for a regular customer today. His been on the same dose for over a year. But the doctor doesn't seem to write repeats for him. I asked the patient today.
Me: His your Crestor Mr XX. The doctor hasn't written any repeats for you.
Him: Yeh I know. I don't know why she doesn't write repeats for me, I have to go every month to see her.
Me: I was going to say. You can get up to 5 repeats. I've noticed you've been on the same dose for a long time so your cholesterol would have been stabilised on this dose. I don't see why you can't repeats.
Him: Yeh so annoying. I asked her and she said she can't write repeats for me.
Me: I don't see why not. Other doctors do it for their patients. Do you get a blood test every month?
Him: No! I only get a blood test every 6 months.
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You see, this is when I suspect fraud by doctors occur far so frequently in our community that no one questions them. They do it for blood pressure, fine I guess the justification would be to 'check their blood pressure' at least once per month. But for cholesterol?!?!?! You know the only way to check cholesterol levels is to get a blood test. So unless the doctor actually does a blood test EVERY MONTH for this patient, I don't see any justification as to why a patient needs to see the doctor every month, coz there is no monitoring that can be done in a consultation. Blood test every month is pretty silly if all you have if cholesterol and blood pressure. Patient was not on warfarin either so I dunno. Doctor probably wants to swipe an extra Medicare so they get paid $60 just to merely press the print button on the computer.
Medicare Australia is not doing enough audits to track these kind of doctors down. So many dodgy doctors out there who does dodgy things, wasting our taxpayers money. Too lenient Australia!!!! Your generosity will ruin this health care system. Too many loopholes!
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