Complete Care Pharmacy, LLC
Outcome
DEA issued Order to Show Cause April 2, 2025, and revoked DEA Certificate of Registration No. FC4167121 effective February 26, 2026, after finding the owner-pharmacist issued 26 controlled substance prescriptions without state prescriptive authority, and the pharmacy dispensed those prescriptions knowing the prescriber lacked authority.
Details
Complete Care Pharmacy, LLC — DEA Revocation for Dispensing Prescriptions Written by an Unlicensed In-House Prescriber (2025–2026)
Outcome: DEA issued an Order to Show Cause on April 2, 2025, against Complete Care Pharmacy, LLC of Corrales, New Mexico, and revoked its DEA Certificate of Registration No. FC4167121, effective February 26, 2026, after finding that the pharmacy's owner and pharmacist-in-charge issued 26 controlled substance prescriptions after he no longer held state prescriptive authority, and that the pharmacy filled all 26 of these prescriptions despite knowing the prescriber lacked the required authority.
Complete Care Pharmacy, LLC was a pharmacy in Corrales, New Mexico. The pharmacy's owner served simultaneously as its pharmacist-in-charge. At some point, the owner-pharmacist lost his state prescriptive authority — the state-level license required to issue controlled substance prescriptions.
Despite losing this prescriptive authority, the owner-pharmacist issued 26 controlled substance prescriptions. The pharmacy then filled these prescriptions knowing they were issued by a person who lacked prescriptive authority. This placed the pharmacy in the unusual position of both issuing and filling unlawful prescriptions — with the pharmacy having direct, constructive knowledge of the prescriber's disqualified status because the prescriber was its own owner.
On April 2, 2025, the DEA issued an Order to Show Cause proposing revocation of the pharmacy's DEA Certificate of Registration No. FC4167121, alleging its continued registration was inconsistent with the public interest. The Agency granted the Government's request for final agency action and ordered revocation. The Decision and Order was published in the Federal Register on January 27, 2026, effective February 26, 2026.
Primary Source: Complete Care Pharmacy, LLC; Decision and Order (Fed. Reg. Jan. 27, 2026)
How Crucible Prevents This
The pharmacy filled 26 prescriptions written by its own owner after that owner lost prescriptive authority — a violation where the pharmacy had constructive knowledge of the prescriber's disqualified status. Crucible's integrated prescriber authority monitoring, which tracks the prescriptive authority status of all affiliated and in-house prescribers, would have blocked these fills the moment the owner's prescriptive authority lapsed.
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