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Job Title: Pharmacy Technician Job ID: 17791 Location: Indiana The Primay function of this job: CuraScript, a wholly owned subsidiary of Express Scripts,is a leading national provider of specialty pharmacy services Answer the inbound queue for Physician Services. Call out the Physicians for new prescriptions, clarifications, and dosage changes. Handle escalated e-mails from our internal […]

Pharmacist can pick up the increase pt demand caused by Obamacare

  http://www.drugstorenews.com/article/nyt-board-pharmacists-retail-clinics-nps-can-address-gaps-care NYT board: Pharmacists, retail clinics, NPs can address gaps in care From the article: The NACDS heralded the editorial’s publication. “This New York Times editorial adds to the increasing recognition that face-to-face, pharmacist-provided services can complement the vital role of physicians in a team-based approach to patient health,” NACDS president and CEO Steven […]

Healthcare professional don’t follow their own advice

http://www.medpagetoday.com/PublicHealthPolicy/GeneralProfessionalIssues/36489?utm_content=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=DailyHeadlines&utm_source=WC&xid=NL_DHE_2012-12-18&eun=g578717d0r&userid=578717& Is this a function of life style … or a function of all the pressures from employers to do more and more with less and less and working more hours with fewer breaks ?

If Romneycare was the precursor to Obamacare.. here comes the punch line

http://www.medpagetoday.com/Columns/At-Large/36496?utm_content=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=DailyHeadlines&utm_source=WC&xid=NL_DHE_2012-12-18&eun=g578717d0r&userid=578717&email=steve@steveariens.com&mu_id=5705800 From the article: In 2012, Massachusetts enacted a law intended to not allow healthcare cost inflation to exceed the inflation of the remainder of the economy. It would appear that it is not about how well a care is provided but what the  aggregate health expenditures are …  I am still trying to figure […]

When does semantics save a company from breaking a law?

http://www.todaysworkplace.org/2012/12/18/walmart-tells-workers-who-ask-about-unions-that-benefits-and-vacation-might-go-away/ From the article: Walmart staves off unionization attempts in its stores by telling workers who ask about forming a union that they may lose benefits and vacation time, a potential violation of American labor law Such tactics may not be illegal by themselves because they can be seen as predicting outcomes rather than threatening them, The Nation’s […]