Yesterday (November 27), the State of Ohio Board of Pharmacy (SOBP) sent emails to approximately 7,000 prescribers indicating failure to comply with laws requiring the use of the Ohio Automated Rx Reporting System (OARRS).
Both the SOBP and the State Medical Board of Ohio (SMBO) have now indicated that the emails were sent inadvertently and were inaccurate. The emails were erroneously distributed by the SOBP without the knowledge of the SMBO, the Ohio Board of Nursing, or the Ohio State Dental Board and may contain inaccurate information. Each physician who received the original email has received a second email from the SOBP that apologizes for the error and asks that anyone who received the original email to disregard it. You do not need to take any further action at this time.
View the follow-up message from the SMBO and the apology message from the SOBP.
I received one of these letters, which cost me time to investigate the claim, and a certain amount of emotional distress. I do not interpret the message from the SOBP as a pharmacy. There is no “sorry” in it.
Sandy
The first email had 49 entries, some of which were duplicate names. Five of the 49 had not been queried in OARRS in the last 90 days, 44 had been queried. (Two actual office patients, two in a religious community infirmary, and one in a nursing home.)
I still fail to see how querying OARRS on every little old lady on an anxiety medication stops the use of heroin and fentanyl in Ohio.
This email makes me question the competency of the organization (along with our governor and other feckless politicians) who insist we query this website every 90 days.