BATON ROUGE – The Louisiana Legislative Auditor’s Office released findings of an oversight by the state’s Louisiana Board of Pharmacy. More than 25,000 prescriptions were not filed in the state’s database.
By law, the Louisiana Board of Pharmacy must maintain an electronic system (Prescription Monitoring Program) that monitors controlled substances and drugs of concern dispensed in the state.
The April 2016 audit revealed prescribed drugs, like hydrocodone and oxycodone, through the Medicaid and Worker’s Comp system showed more than 14,000 missing prescriptions in a one-year period.
“Prescriptions that are filled by pharmacies aren’t being entered into the database, so that when the stakeholders look at the database they are not going to see the potentially complete history of all the…
