Mom is staying in a private pay AL temporarily until she is eligible to go into a Medicaid waiver facility. Mom's psychiatrist states he can no longer refill prescriptions since she is in an assisted living facility and no longer staying with family. Mom's primary care doctor does not feel comfortable refilling medications until we can find another psychiatrist. Mom doesn't want current assisted living Dr. to take over her care because she will be moving again. She wants to keep her primary care physician, but she will not refill needed meds. What other options does she have if we can't find a psychiatrist to see her before her medications run out?
That is who should be prescribing for your mom.
psychiatrist is a specialist. In an AL you can go to whomever you want. I would ask the psychiatrist why does being in AL have anything to do with him being her doctor. She is a resident not a patient. This seems weird to me.
I can understand your Mom's PCP not wanting to be liable for psych meds. It isn't her specialty. However, she doesn't seem to have an issue with the AL.
So it sounds like you will have to use the AL's doctor, or move her to wherever she will end up, prior to the meds running out. Any AL would prefer private pay over Medicaid.
Icky, icky.
While staff at an AL could not legally 'administer' the meds, family could.
OP, I think BarbBrooklyn nailed it in her response to you.
She will keep her original PCP and add the psychiatric practice recommended through her current facility.