Is it illegal for a private practive doctor to force the patients to fill their prescriptions at the in-house pharmacy?
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Is it illegal for a private practive doctor to force the patients to fill their prescriptions at the in-house pharmacy?
The private doctor is intimidating the employees to hand-walk all the prescriptions written by the doctor and the patients to the in-house pharmacy, even if they refuse. The prescription is to be put into the pharmacist’s hand to be filled while the patient waits.
Asked on May 3, 2012 under Employment Labor Law, Illinois
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Answered 11 years ago | Contributor
Under the American Medical Association's (AMA) code of ethics with respect to medical doctors, they cannot require a patient to have his or her prescription issued by that particular doctor filled at a certain pharmacy.
What you have written about sounds as though the private doctor who is doing the intimidation has some vested interest in the particular pharmacy that you have written about.
The conduct of the private doctor is not "illegal" but if a complaint was made against him/her about it to the AMA he or she might be subject to a reprimand.
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