Standard of care can vary from place to place a little, but I think in this case it probably comes down to claiming “standard of care” because they are uncomfortable and also uncompensated for filling a prescription for a patient they have never seen. If someone is my regular patient, I know their bp and cholesterol are well controlled, so I can press the yes button for refills on the computer without even having to look in their chart. Takes me not much time. But if I had never even met the patient?! Then I would have to read the previous doc’s notes, pulling up the last labs, pulling up the documentation on when last refills were, all taking a million clicks with the clunky computer chart, wasting precious time I don’t have because I am stressed to the max as a new doc in this practice full of patients I am just meeting and learning. And I would be getting zero money for this but taking on all the liability(because my name is now on the bottle.) No thanks!
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