Fake ER visits being Illegal

[bettie1976]

A girl I met in detox told me she was on probation for faking things to get narcotics. From the SAME ER I was doing it at. She also told me they waited about 14 months to get ahold of her and take her to court over it. It's real.

[NautyOne]

hehe.......I thought that was cute.  We have to keep some sense of humor,   I know she meant not disrespect.

[bettie1976]

i can hit but my daughter's better at it if you still need a player who can hit anything. :)

[Calzy]

Sorry, just playing

[bettie1976]

was that supposed to be sarcastic calzy? or did I read you wrong?

[Calzy]

Well got to go home and get ready for a job interview in the morning and i need to pick up a few things from the ER on the way home. Later

[Calzy]

Do you want to play on my baseball team, we need someone who can hit anything.

[bettie1976]

i dont care. im ready for pretty much anything life throws at me. bring it on.

[Calzy]

I think alot of us think about that one,  but i would'nt admit to anything on the air here.

[bettie1976]

yea when she told me that happened to her i got a bit worried. but then i said F it, one day at a time. Im not a worrier.

[bettie1976]

and yes, the state of oregon paid the bills.

[slideshow]

It's called Doctor Shopping and yes it is illegal, the DEA does sometimes go through scripts at pharmacies, particularly pharmacies who fill scripts for docs they might be scrutinizing.   Let's say, if someone is visiting dentist, ERs, several docs, and several medfirst type offices and geting pills from all of them....If this person is not smart enough to spread their pharmacy purchases out and time them adquately, its pretty easy for the law to figure, who is going it......I don't quite know how they handle the scrutiny, but for example if someone does this all in one suburb in a large metro area, and there is one DEA agent that checks the paper in that particular suburb, or small town, or entire major city really.   Say one person sees a dozen docs and gets a dozen scripts, and fills them every month or several weeks, that persons name gets written down somewhere.   I don't know really how they manage that scrutiny, but common sense tells me it wouldn't be hard to find someone, or to prove it

[Calzy]

Probable didnt pay the bill so they found a way to keep her from going back and racking up the bill.

[bettie1976]

i dunno but she had to pay 800 bucks and be on probation. She told me they pulled up her charts and said shed been there 42 times in a year and a half.

[GA Guy]

I never heard of that. Wonder how they prove you're faking it? Just by the number of times you go? Same symptoms?