Unauthorized dea number use

klone, MSN, RN · Jun 10, 2015

How did you find this out? Were these for controlled substance/narcotics? Does your state have a narcotics tracking website (Colorado does - you can look up by patient name to see who prescribed what, when, where it was filled, etc). Or you can look it up by provider.

OCNRN63, RN · Jun 10, 2015

Try asking on the forum for NPs. They might have some answers.

Trauma Columnist · Jun 11, 2015

Moved to NP forum

Katya000 · Jun 11, 2015

Did you find it by looking at a drug monitoring page? Is it all the same patient (meaning patient may have faked scripts) or a group of patients? I'd contact the police I guess. They just arrested a medical assistant at a local clinic for making fake prescriptions using the doctor's DEA number.

bugya90, ASN, BSN, LVN, RN · Jun 11, 2015

I'm not an NP (just LVN). When this happened to one of our PAs last year she contacted our hospitals legal department and they filed a report with the police and I'm assuming the DEA as well. Not sure of the details. Does your company have a legal or risk management department that you could contact?

I apologize if this does not help and I hope everything works out.

RiskManager · Jun 11, 2015

In addition to the DEA, I would also contact your state's NP licensing agency and the state Board of Pharmacy lest a sudden spike in controlled substances scripts in your name trigger flashing lights at those agencies. I would do this via email so as to have a written record of how they were informed, what you said, and when the report was made.

In all my stolen/forged/altered scripts, I have often wondered why it was not for something useful, like a nice cephalosporin or a steroid cream to have on hand or something like that. Always the pain meds, the ADHD meds and the benzos. If I ever encountered someone scamming me for a beta blocker or a thyroid med, I would fall over in shock.

Trauma Columnist · Jun 12, 2015

@Risk Manager - in my area, one norco can go for $25 on the street which is the incentive around here....

allnurses Guide · Jun 12, 2015

I am an np and recently found out there has been over 40 scripts i did not authorize filled in the last few months using my dea number. I have been trying to contact a rather unresponsive and clurless local dea office with little success. What is the proper procedure? I am new to this. The only thing i can find is a dea 106 form online although it serms like its meant for pharmacists with stolen inventory...

One of our providers had a similar problem last year, though it was only a handful of scripts for controlled substances. The provider filed reports with the DEA, the local PD, and alerted the board. He was fortunate to have our hospital's lawyer assisted with this.

Have you contacted the pharmacies these unauthorized scripts were filled through? They should be able to provide you are hard-copy of the signed script if it was for controlled substances.