Guido Filippi – April 14, 2013 – THE XIX CENTURY Genoa
Genoa – Home checks and checks on prescriptions to verify if they are filled in correctly, if the rules are respected and if the prescribed medicines are really used. They are the two parallel strands of the Asl 3 investigations that want to arrive at a single conclusion: to avoid waste and save on medicines.
The first to pay the price are family doctors who, as stipulated in their contract, must comply with the rules on prescriptions.
Over seventy mutualists who, in the last year, have gotten into trouble and, when they were summoned to the offices of the ASL 3 headquarters, had to answer for the wrong prescriptions: too many packs of medicines, medicines that were not appropriate for a disease and other violations.
At least forty failed to provide convincing answers and had to reach for their wallets. «They had to compensate the ASL – explains the head of the pharmaceutical service Adele Coccini – The minimum request was fifty euros, but some had to return even two or three thousand euros ». Of course there have been too
