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Doctor Shopping and Your Obligation to Disclose Information About Previously-Obtained Prescriptions

By Ron Chapman

          Florida' doctor-shopping law states that it is illegal for any person "[t]o withhold information from a [doctor] from whom the person seeks to obtain a controlled substance or a prescription for a controlled substance that the person making the request has received a controlled substance or a prescription for a controlled substance of like therapeutic use from another [doctor] within the previous 30 days."             In the case of Knipp versus State of Florida, the issue was whether an individual has a legal obligation to disclose to a doctor that he has obtained a similar prescription within the previous 30 days from another doctor when the second doctor does not ask him about any previously-obtained prescriptions...continue to full post

Full post as published by Palm Beach Criminal Defense Blog on January 10, 2011 (boomark / email).