I have been a medical equipment supplier (MES) in Virginia for more than thirty years and the proposed restriction on limiting a duely licensed MES from transferring a prescription to a company branch or another duely licensed MES will cost the Commonwealth untold dollars in delayed hospital discharges of Medicaid and Medicare beneficiaries.  Physicians in teaching hospitals such as MCV and UVA are extremely difficult to locate to issuesadditional scripts when a patient requires service from more than one location of a MES. 

In all my years experience as a MES in Virginia I am not aware of a single case where a patient was harmed due to a valid prescription being transferred within either a MES branch or another MES. Additionally, this behavior of honoring a valid script is everyday practice in the retail pharmacy system. 

Why should there be a different policy required for duely licensed MSEs in the Commonwealth?