They fine those who have the money ?

Posted on October 12, 2014 by Pharmaciststeve

An employee diverts 20,000 units of opiates … doesn’t say how the diversion was made … unless it was calling in Rxs to pharmacies while working at the office..  As insurance companies/Medicare/Medicaid keeps reducing payment for services.. the more ancillary staff that is needed to get the job done.. Prescribers are mostly in exam rooms […]

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Is this what is replacing “pill mills” ?

Posted on October 12, 2014 by Pharmaciststeve

Holy Cow!! Look At What the Alabama Board of Pharmacy is Seeing During its Inspections of Compounding Pharmacies! Posted: 11 Oct 2014 10:19 PM PDT DR. ALVERSON: For 797, I’d say 5 it’s — it’s still all over the board of what we 6 see. We’ve gone into some places that are 7 almost virtually […]

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We don’t discriminate.. we just have CRITERIA and we don’t share !

Posted on October 12, 2014 by Pharmaciststeve

This showed up in a post on the internet… by a chronic pain pt in Florida. In my last post I told of being abruptly shut out of Walgreens for my Oxy meds, without any explanation and after being a loyal customer for 16 years. I called the pharmacy manager, at the  Walgreens  I used […]

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Three sides to a story… yours..mine.. truth

Posted on October 12, 2014 by Pharmaciststeve

County pharmacists have licenses suspended and are ordered to sell their businesses http://www.journal-eureka.com/news/jones_county/article_a0ceab20-4f03-11e4-9435-001a4bcf6878.html From the article:   Father and son pharmacists Phillip Tuetken and Christopher Tuetken each had their licenses to practice pharmacy suspended by the Iowa Board of Pharmacy one day apart for seemingly unrelated infractions.       Christopher Tuetken owns several drug stores in […]

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