your kid’s prescriber is OK with 3mo fills at one time
your prescriber may only do 1mo at a time due to their personal policy, and/or may be restricted to that by clinic policy
And:
your husband’s schedule V is less restricted by the DEA, it can be sent to a pharmacy with refills just like a standard prescription, except limited to a total of 6 months at a time instead of 12 months for unscheduled drugs. Schedule II prescriptions cannot be sent with refills per DEA so your prescriber has to send a fresh one every time it is needed, OR can send up to 3 individual 30-day prescriptions at a time
as far as I know pharmacies will not/cannot automatically fill your schedule II drug each month, this is likely for multiple reasons but one being that each month requires activating a fresh prescription in contrast to your husband’s, where one prescription is sent with 5 refills every 6 months that can be set to automatically fill in the system.
you as the patient will have to contact your prescriber for new prescriptions. That’s just how it is.
doctors do have leeway, within the laws I’ve sorta summarized above, to do what they feel is appropriate. This may be by having a personal, broad policy to only do one-month per prescription as I stated earlier; or they may decide on a case basis that an individual is too high risk to give a full 3 months at a time. The latter being because if I send in three one month prescriptions for you, then find out you’re abusing them, diverting/selling, etc. then I can contact the pharmacy and cancel the remaining ones.
In short, nothing you’ve described is anyone doing anything wrong, even though it’s a pain in your ass.
stumpedtown t1_j256hf4 wrote
Reply to Any WA state pharmacists or doctors able to answer a question on refills for controlled substances at a pharmacy? I'm just baffled now on why certain hoops need monthly jumping, and if it is corporate policy, state law, or Federal law. This is CVS and Swedish. by Seattle_Is_Wet
Most likely:
your kid’s prescriber is OK with 3mo fills at one time
your prescriber may only do 1mo at a time due to their personal policy, and/or may be restricted to that by clinic policy
And:
your husband’s schedule V is less restricted by the DEA, it can be sent to a pharmacy with refills just like a standard prescription, except limited to a total of 6 months at a time instead of 12 months for unscheduled drugs. Schedule II prescriptions cannot be sent with refills per DEA so your prescriber has to send a fresh one every time it is needed, OR can send up to 3 individual 30-day prescriptions at a time
as far as I know pharmacies will not/cannot automatically fill your schedule II drug each month, this is likely for multiple reasons but one being that each month requires activating a fresh prescription in contrast to your husband’s, where one prescription is sent with 5 refills every 6 months that can be set to automatically fill in the system.
you as the patient will have to contact your prescriber for new prescriptions. That’s just how it is.
doctors do have leeway, within the laws I’ve sorta summarized above, to do what they feel is appropriate. This may be by having a personal, broad policy to only do one-month per prescription as I stated earlier; or they may decide on a case basis that an individual is too high risk to give a full 3 months at a time. The latter being because if I send in three one month prescriptions for you, then find out you’re abusing them, diverting/selling, etc. then I can contact the pharmacy and cancel the remaining ones.
In short, nothing you’ve described is anyone doing anything wrong, even though it’s a pain in your ass.