Veterans warned about prescription scam.* The VA is telling veterans to be on the alert for telephone calls from someone claiming to be from the "VA pharmacy pharmacy, art of compounding and dispensing drugs and medication. The term is also applied to an establishment used for such purposes. Until modern times medication was prepared and dispensed by the physician himself. In the 18th cent. " who ask for personal information and a list of medications. "There have been some reports of veterans receiving such phone calls, which the VA warns are a complete scam (SCSI Configured AutoMatically) A subset of Plug and Play that allows SCSI IDs to be changed by software rather than by flipping switches or changing jumpers. Both the SCSI host adapter and peripheral must support SCAM. See SCSI. ," said Washington Headquarters Executive Director David W. Gorman. "Disabled veterans may be the targets of those phony calls because they are frequent users of the VA health care system." According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the VA, some veterans received phone calls from a man indicating he was from the "VA pharmacy" who asked veterans for their Social Security number and a list of medications because of "new co-pay Co-pay A type of insurance policy where the insured pays a specified amount of out-of-pocket expenses for health-care services such as doctor visits and prescriptions drugs at the time the service is rendered, with the insurer paying the remaining costs. regulations." Officials said the caller Caller may refer to one of the following:
The VA stresses there has been no change in regulations and that it does not contact patients by telephone for prescription renewals. Officials urge veterans to be very careful about giving out personal information over the phone to people they do not know. |
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