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To the Editor: California Senate Bill 393 requires "presentation of a valid prescription for the patient and the patient's Medicare card" as the basis for discounted prices.¹ Since the design of the study reported by Lewis et al. (March 14 issue)² did not include the presentation of prescriptions, and since the "standardized patients" identified themselves only as Medicare enrollees, it is not possible to interpret the results as a measurement of compliance with Senate Bill 393. A more valid design would have included the presentation of both prescriptions and Medicare cards. Furthermore, it was inappropriately implied that pharmacists should be . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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