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D.C Week: CMS Addresses Medicare Fraud, ACO Penalties http://www.medpagetoday.com/Washington-Watch/Washington-Watch/48959?xid=nl_mpt_DHE_2014-12-08&utm_content=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=DailyHeadlines&utm_source=ST&eun=g578717d0r& From the article: This week in Washington, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced new regulations to stomp out Medicare fraud The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is issuing new rules to help prevent Medicare fraud and abuse by barring physicians with unpaid […]

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http://ncpanet.wordpress.com/2014/12/10/the-lock-in-pharmacy-approach-to-rx-drug-abuse/#comment-15624 The “Lock-In” Pharmacy Approach to Rx Drug Abuse A proposal to restrict certain Medicare beneficiaries to use only a dedicated, “lock-in” pharmacy for their controlled substances is now a part of legislation introduced by two House lawmakers. House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee Chair Kevin Brady (R-Texas) and Ranking Member Jim McDermott (D-Wash.) recently proposed […]

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Privacy Concerns Grow as Pharma Uses Data to Target Consumers http://blogs.wsj.com/pharmalot/2014/12/10/privacy-concerns-grow-as-pharma-uses-data-to-target-consumers/ The practice is known as a matchback. Data brokers buy prescription records from pharmacy benefit managers and then use algorithms to substitute patient names with numerical codes, Bloomberg writes. Then, they work with websites to transform the data, and drug makers pay the websites […]

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Dropping coverage of popular prescription drugs is sad and shameful http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-lazarus-20141205-column.html From the article: Express Scripts, which handles prescription-drug benefits for millions or people nationwide, is dropping coverage for 66 brand-name drugs next month in an effort to keep costs down. Rival CVS Health is dropping 95 drugs from its own list of covered drugs. […]

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Pharmacist gets $500,000 in Rite Aid whistleblower case http://drugtopics.modernmedicine.com/drug-topics/news/pharmacist-gets-500000-rite-aid-whistleblower-case?page=full From the article: Rite Aid Corp. recently agreed to pay $2.99 million to settle federal charges it used gift cards to entice Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries to transfer their prescriptions to its pharmacies. According to the U.S. Department of Justice, from 2008 to 2010, Rite Aid […]

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Walgreens testing mobile app for virtual doctor visits http://www.cbsnews.com/news/walgreens-testing-mobile-app-for-virtual-doctors-visits/ From the article: Walgreens, the nation’s largest drugstore chain, is testing a new mobile app that lets patients see a doctor and get a prescription without leaving home. The Deerfield, Illinois, company said Monday that patients in California or Michigan can now contact a physician around […]

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Congresswoman To Gruber: My Husband Died During Obamacare Enrollment Glitches

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