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The unglamorous page. Read it anyway.
Lien-based medicine in California has a history, and most of the enforcement in it has landed on people who were doing something specific and identifiable. This page is a list of those specific things and what we do instead.
A real pharmacy, at a real address.
Family Pharmacy Services of Beverly Hills, Inc. is a retail pharmacy licensed by the California State Board of Pharmacy, operating from a permitted location at 8314 Wilshire Blvd, Beverly Hills, CA 90211. License status, discipline history and expiry are public and verifiable through the California Department of Consumer Affairs license search — you do not have to take our word for any of it.
This distinction matters more than it sounds. Several of the national companies marketing “pharmacy lien” services to law firms are not pharmacies at all; they are card programs or billing intermediaries that route the fill to a chain counter. There is nothing wrong with that model, but it means the entity whose name is on your client's lien has no pharmacy license, no pharmacist, and no premises to inspect.
What to verify, and where
- Pharmacy license — California Board of Pharmacy, via the DCA license search
- NPI — the CMS national provider registry
- The premises — 8314 Wilshire Blvd, Beverly Hills. It is a shop. You can walk in
- The corporate entity — Family Pharmacy Services of Beverly Hills, Inc., California Secretary of State
If a license or NPI number is not printed on this site, it is because we would rather publish nothing than publish a number nobody has checked against the certificate. Call and ask — you will get it, and you should verify it.
Nothing of value changes hands for a patient.
Not to law firms. Not to case managers. Not to physicians, chiropractors or surgery centers. Not to marketing companies, lead brokers or “patient coordinators.” Not in cash, not in kind, not as a discount, not as sponsorship of an event, and not through a consulting or medical-director arrangement structured to look like something else.
Two bodies of law sit on this. California Business and Professions Code section 650 makes it unlawful to offer or receive consideration for referring patients. The federal Anti-Kickback Statute does the same where a federal healthcare program is involved, with criminal exposure attached. Neither is a grey area, and both have produced prosecutions in exactly this corner of the market.
There is a self-interested reason as well as a legal one. A lien built on a compensated referral is a lien worth attacking, and the attacking is done in a deposition of the pharmacy, in your client's case. Every dollar this business does not pay for a referral is a question the defense does not get to ask.
If someone in this space has offered your firm or your facility a per-patient arrangement — a fee, a split, a marketing stipend that scales with volume — that is the thing to look at closely, whoever it came from.
Only what was authorized, only to who was named.
A signed, scoped authorization
Records go to a law firm only under a HIPAA authorization the patient has signed, naming that firm, and limited to the injury-related dispensing. The firm does not receive the patient's unrelated medication history because the case does not need it.
Never sold, never brokered
Patient information is not sold, rented, or shared with marketers, lead buyers or anyone else. The referral form on this site goes to the pharmacy and nowhere else.
Notice of Privacy Practices
Our full HIPAA notice sets out what we collect, who we disclose it to, and the patient's rights over it. Read the notice.
A pending case changes nothing here.
Post-operative orthopedic work means Schedule II prescriptions. This is the area where a pharmacy willing to bend is a danger to the patient, to the prescriber and to the case.
Valid prescription only
From a DEA-registered prescriber, in the form the law requires. California mandates electronic prescribing for most prescriptions, with statutory exceptions; we receive electronically and do not ask prescribers to work around it.
CURES, every time
The database is consulted before dispensing and every Schedule II–IV dispensing is reported on the schedule the law sets. There is no version of this that gets skipped because a case is pending.
Hand-off, not drop-off
Controlled substances are handed to the patient or an authorized representative with identification verified. No doorstep drops, no leaving it at a front desk, no exceptions arranged over the phone.
We will say no
If a requested quantity, refill or hand-off is not appropriate or not lawful, we say so and explain why. A pharmacy that never says no to a referral source is not an asset to anyone attached to the file.
The four things that make a lien bill look manufactured.
Every one of these has been an ingredient in a real California enforcement action or a real defense cross-examination. They are absent here on purpose.
What we do not do
- Charge a premium because it is on a lien
- Dispense compounded topical pain creams on a lien
- Add items to a lien that nobody prescribed
- Accrue interest or finance charges on the balance
What we do instead
- Charge our usual and customary cash price
- Dispense ordinary topicals — lidocaine patches, diclofenac gel
- Fill exactly what the treating provider ordered
- Bill the amount dispensed, and nothing more, however long the case takes
Nothing on this site is legal advice
We are pharmacists. No attorney has reviewed this page, and the statutes and rules cited here are cited so that you can read them yourself. If your firm's compliance counsel wants to review our patient agreement, our letter-of-protection language or our billing practice before you refer anybody, that is a completely reasonable request and we will send all three the same day. Email medsonliens@gmail.com.