This BS about the “BNE staff assured that the goal of the letter was no intimidation, but education for these physicians regarding the CDC’s chronic pain guidelines”
Right off the bat, you get the impression that they are treating the “guidelines” as “law”…
I have seen this sort of thing in pharmacy.. normally around wanting to document fill errors… not for punitive action but to analyze how misfills happen and what can be done to prevent them in the future.
What normally happens is that it is discovered that there are parts of “the system” that is causing the errors, and to solve these errors changes has to be made to the system. It takes money that the employer doesn’t have or wants to put the money out to fix things… and all of a sudden this “collecting data” exercise turns into punitive actions against those who make errors. They come to the conclusion that their system cannot be the cause of these misfills, it has to be a problem with the staff.
Who believes that the BNE is going to change their opinion of what/how the CDC guidelines are to be followed/observed ? Just watch at some point in the future that those physicians that initially got these “educational letters” and they don’t bring all their pts in line with the CDC guidelines.. the next letter will either be a threat to have all pts conform to the CDC guidelines or else or they will just skip that step and go right to sanctions ? Because the first letter should have “educated them enough” for them to start reducing their pt’s doses to CDC guideline levels.
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