Consult and actually listen to doctors and pharmacists on the frontline everyday on allowing these medications to be filled easier and more frequently.

Relax rules on scheduled and controlled medications so patients can refill them earlier and get prior authorizations earlier. The current system prevents doctors from giving refillable prescriptions and writing prior authorizations for the future. This causes delays in filling medications with no time for the prior authorization to occur in a logical way. Patients are forced to call in at the last minute to fill their medications, extra medication cannot be prescribed to allow for this either.

Rules prevent pharmacies from filling medications 2 days before the refill date. If the clinic is closed or the standard 3-4 busines days, and a weekend occurs for a clinic / hospital response occurs, the patient has to sit in agonizing pain while this is sorted out. The nonsense solution to this is an emergency line, that when used results in backup doctors saying they can't find their dea numbers in time, and the patient waits even longer. 2-4 days of excruciating pain because of nonsense rules.

Disabled patients with mobility issues have few ways of navigating this system without paying out of pocket even with insurance. To pay for the medication out of pocket? Still requires the prior authorization, which most likely has not even started yet. So you have a patient who has years of history of taking this medication, with doctor approval, but still can't get it even if they have the money, because of poorly designed rules.

Talk to doctors and pharmacists to allow federally scheduled/ controlled medications like opiod pain killers to be filled easier.

My medication needs a prior authorization to be filled, but the doctor cannot react to this until insurance denies the filling because of the missing prior authorization. The pharmacy cannot even attempt this within a few days of the medication being out. The prior Authorization will take longer than that. This makes no sense. I then have to pay out of pocket in the hundreds. This only hurts pain patients.

These tightened rules do nothing to stop drug seekers from using drugs but only punish patients who legally and rightfully get these medications from an actually educated doctor and pharmacist with real world patient experience.

Drug seekers are still finding their fix on the streets while people who rightfully need these medications and their medical professionals are handcuffed from common sense solutions to their pain.

Remove these nonsensical rules from the doctor and patient relationship.