INDIANAPOLIS — Three Indiana pharmacists have been reprimanded by state regulators for trying to access Prince’s medical records within days of the music superstar’s death last year.
The Indiana Board of Pharmacy issued letters of reprimand in the last three months and imposed penalties on the three after investigators with the state attorney general’s office found they had tried separately to access Prince’s medical records in April 2016 through a state database.
Prince died April 21, 2016, of an accidental overdose of the painkiller fentanyl.
All three pharmacists were found to have misused Indiana’s online INSPECT database that pharmacists and physicians use to check controlled-substance prescription histories of patients.
Officials found that the pharmacists entered Prince’s legal name and date of birth into the database within nine days of his death to try to access his confidential records, even though they had not previously treated the musician who was from Minneapolis and lived in a suburb of that city.
The board issued a final order on Oct. 12 for Indianapolis pharmacist Katrina A. Kalb for attempting to access Prince’s medical records one day after his death. The panel did not fine her, but ordered her to complete 12 hours each of ethics education and community service.
On Sept. 15, the board fined Selma, Indiana, pharmacist Kimberly M. Henson $1,000 and ordered her to complete 12 hours of ethics education. The board found that Henson had tried twice to access the musician’s medical records.
The board gave Crown Point pharmacist Michael Eltzroth the same punishment and fine as Henson on Aug. 8 for a single attempt to access Prince’s records.
The attorney general’s office filed administrative complaints against the three in June and July, and the pharmacy board held its hearings after that.
Attorney general’s office spokesman Bill McCleery said complaints against medical professionals typically take the office between six and 12 months to investigate.
Let the great man to rest in peace. He was loved by so many and he is gone so why does it really matter how we lost him. Miss I Prince.
I love prince
Prince is sorely missed but he will always be remembered
prince was more influential than Hendrix, Sly Stone, Michael Jackson….. yes I said Michael Jackson. Simply because he mastered the art of writing recording and most importantly playing all the instruments at a level that most musicians strive for on one instrument. He has enough music in his vault to release an album a year for a hundred years. There has been no one like him to this point. And I believe there will be no one else like him for the rest of this Century at least. As far as I’m concerned he was Bowie, Dylan, The Beatles, Hendrix, all put together. And more
Yes that really makes sense, well put and very true.
They were great but Prince was on a whole nother level musician
If you ask me he is still alive come on why would three Indiana pharmacist be checking his history they would have to be trying to treat him come on guys for real
You spout nonsense!
Seriously, guess Elvis Presley is still alive too ??
Prince was the greatest musician the world has ever seen. That what they get .
They should have lost their licenses!!! Never to get them back
Naaa not that serious
Um. Why
That’s good. It never occurred to me that a pharmacist, not his own, would try to look up records.
Are you kidding? I am a pharmacy tech for Kroger and I know a pharmacist that does it all the time. Even if the people didn’t bring in a script for a control.