A patient presents you with three individual prescriptions for Methylphenidate. The first states that it should not be filled until thirty days from today's date, the second states that it should not
be filled until sixty days from today's date, and the third has no such instruction.
In an event like this, what should you do?
Refuse to fill the prescription and explain that presenting multiple prescription blanks for
the same drug could result in criminal charges.
Fill the prescription without date restrictions immediately and contact the prescriber
regarding the remainder.
If your state allows the issuance of multiple prescriptions, you may dispense all three
thirty-day supplies at once.
Confer with your Pharmacist to understand if your state allows the issuance of multiple
prescriptions, you may dispense the prescription without date restrictions, and fill the
remainder on the appropriate dates.