{Frankfort, Kentucky}...House Speaker Greg Stumbo, D-Prestonsburg, who hopes to crack down on doctors who overprescribe pain medications, said Wednesday that he will soon file a bill to transfer the state's Kentucky All Schedule Prescription Electronic Reporting System from the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to Attorney General Jack Conway's office. Stumbo, who has faulted the Kentucky Board of Medical Licensure for not doing enough to go after doctors who overprescribe narcotics in a state where drug overdoses are the leading cause of death for some age groups, says the board should use data from KASPER to identify doctors who prescribe too many scheduled narcotics, and he thinks the system would be more effective if a law-enforcement agency administered it.Wednesday, January 4, 2012
Stumbo Proposes KASPER Transfer
{Frankfort, Kentucky}...House Speaker Greg Stumbo, D-Prestonsburg, who hopes to crack down on doctors who overprescribe pain medications, said Wednesday that he will soon file a bill to transfer the state's Kentucky All Schedule Prescription Electronic Reporting System from the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to Attorney General Jack Conway's office. Stumbo, who has faulted the Kentucky Board of Medical Licensure for not doing enough to go after doctors who overprescribe narcotics in a state where drug overdoses are the leading cause of death for some age groups, says the board should use data from KASPER to identify doctors who prescribe too many scheduled narcotics, and he thinks the system would be more effective if a law-enforcement agency administered it.