TennCare, Tennessee’s equivalent of Medicare, is the first insurance provider to be backed by a law against fraudulently-obtained prescription drugs. Specifically – if you go to a doctor for a prescription and have received a prescription for that same drug in the past month, you have to inform the doctor of that fact. If you don’t, you can be investigated and, if found guilty of fraud, charged with a felony. Previously, you could be prosecuted for selling the drugs, but not for buying them and certainly not for attempting to buy them. The new law is intended to curb the practice of ‘doctor shopping’, which has fueled rising prescription drug addiction and abuse statistics.    Read more...