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New York comptroller accuses OTPs of not checking PDMP; DOH fights back
Author(s) -
Knopf Alison
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
alcoholism and drug abuse weekly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1556-7591
pISSN - 1042-1394
DOI - 10.1002/adaw.32199
Subject(s) - audit , medical prescription , medicine , state (computer science) , financial audit , methadone , medical emergency , business , nursing , computer science , psychiatry , accounting , algorithm
In an audit that constituted three opioid treatment programs (OTPs) and 25 patients, New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli earlier this month criticized the state's Department of Health (DOH) for not making sure providers check I‐STOP — the state's prescription drug monitoring program (PDMP). According to the audit, OTP patients on methadone have been accessing opioid prescriptions with those prescribers not knowing that the patient is in an OTP, and the state DOH, which was the subject of the audit, has not done enough to prevent this.