We just made up a prescription for "one touch test strips, one bottle of 100". True, it does not codify, but we refill prescriptions off the current med list which works, codified or not.

This may reflect a philosophy difference in our practices; we very rarely refill prescriptions without a visit, and are liberal about number of refills allowed when we do refill. Consequently, we do not respond to refill requests from a pharmacy, and perhaps this is where the difference lies and why we do not have this problem.


David Grauman MD
Department of Medicine
Commonwealth Health Center
Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands