Why Test?

Protect The Patient

• Encourages dialogue between patient and provider.
• Reconciles patient’s reported medication use with medications and substances present in the urine.
• Identify undisclosed medication or drug use that could cause potential drug-drug adverse reactions.
• Implementing a urine drug monitoring protocol can help increase patient adherence to their prescription regimen.
• Monitor ongoing prescriptions as signs and symptoms differ

Protect The Physician

• Provides objective report of medication or illicit substances present in the urine for use in clinical decision making.
• Understand what drugs are in your patient’s system before prescribing.
• Implementing a drug monitoring program into your clinic protocol helps eliminate the diversion of controlled substances that you are prescribing.
• Educates patients on drug-drug interactions as they are seen on a report.
• Decrease liability by reinforcing compliance and confirming noncompliance with your patients.
• Physicians can be held liable for patients misusing or abusing their prescription drugs

Protect The Public

• Compliance monitoring helps mitigate risk of medications being diverted from patient to hands of the public.
• Be able to provide adequate care to your patients so they do not seek drugs elsewhere.
• Eliminate drug seekers and “doctor shopping” from your practice.
• Ensure that everyone in the care continuum is protected in today’s ever increasing litigious medical market place