Audit: NYS agency lax on fake prescriptions
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The state agency responsible for monitoring prescriptions for controlled substances failed to recognize more than a half-million prescription errors that may have allowed the drugs to be obtained illegally, a state comptroller's audit said.
The audit, released Wednesday by Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli, found evidence of widespread fraud in more than 565,000 narcotics prescriptions and refills,...
