I just had an Optum Mail Order pharmacist ask if I could make sure that the patient's suffix (in this case, "Jr.") could be on the E-script. I had never noticed if it printed it or not, but this was on a patient with a very common name (and apparently a very common birthday, haha), and the pharmacist was having trouble making sure that we were discussing the right patient. Apparently there were more than one registration for this patient, with different addresses, adding to the confusion. What do you guys think? Should the Rx have the suffix on it, or could this cause more problems....
This is one of the really big issues of our time, not, but since it came up I thought I'd throw it out there.
