I appreciate your concern over employees faxing in scripts for narcotics or other controlled substances. However, I do not share your viewpoint. While if I read between the lines, you may be implying that calling in a prescription for narcotics is less likely; I am not so sure this is true. Yes, the MA, nurse or other staff member may be less likely to phone in a script due to the fact that he or she may be asked for his or her name, but the only time we had an event it was a called in prescription and the pharmacy didn't ask for the name. At least a fax leaves a paper trail.
Maybe I have not been in the business long enough to get "burned," but I am not going to let the one or two employees in my career who take advantage of his or her position to commit crimes from using practices that help my staff and me be more efficient. I reported my MA to the police, DEA, DA and the attorney general as well as my attorney and nothing became of it. I feel bad for those under the Texas rules, because in Maine we do not get listed or exposed for something we had little or no control over.
This is just my view. I completely understand yours.
