A Pharmacy That Won’t Order From A Different Manufacturer

My sister is being treated by a pain management for severe back pain and is prescribed oxycodone w/ acetaminophen. The problem is the doctor office says she must use the pharmacy downstairs in the same bldg. that pharmacy only carries Camber and will not order from any other manufacturer. The pill that she gets has a real negative affect on her, she complains about being lethargic, will make her sleep 15 hours a day, and she can’t nor want to get anything done. My question is, is there laws on the books that state that she has to use that pharmacy. Or how can she get that doctor to send her next script to CVS or Walgreens. This doctor has treated her for years and she has always used the pharmacy downstairs but now that that pharmacy is using camber everything is gone to hell. How can my sister go to a different pharmacy to get a different brand of this pain medicine
This doctor has treated her for years and she has always used the pharmacy downstairs but now that the pharmacy is using Camber everything is gone to hell. How can my sister go to a different pharmacy to get a different brand of this pain medicine. She needs any and all comments and help with this problem. Thank you all.

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Hi Jerry,

Sorry to hear about your sister's situation. From my own understanding, there aren't any laws that say you must go to a specific pharmacy. Patients (paying customers) have free will to choose where they spend their money. If you ask me, I'm under the impression that this doctor gets kick-backs from being affiliated with this pharmacy that he tells all his patients to go to. A legitimate prescription should be fillable at any licensed pharmacy, not just a doctor's "preferred" pharmacy.

On the other hand, I do get the sense that if she told this doctor that she was going to fill her prescription elsewhere, that he would stop writing her prescriptions out of his own immoral attitude. This is just my personal take on the situation based on your post so I could be wrong about the doctor, but if it were me I probably would not say anything if I were to fill it somewhere else... Then I'd start looking for another doctor altogether because once he finds out that he's not getting his pharmacy affiliate kick-backs, he'll take notice and wonder why.

Does anyone else have thoughts to add?

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