Health Privacy at the Pharmacy

In the middle of an already-hectic schedule, my office received a call from a pharmacist at Roundy’s Pharmacy, Sheboygan WI saying that he couldn’t fill a script for oxycodone without the patient’s ICD-9 number.  The ICD-9 is soon to be replaced by ICD-10, a system that applies numbers to every medical illness under the sun. …
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