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Humana Says Data Support Its Medicare Advantage Strategy Accountable care option may really offer an ‘advantage’ to Medicare. http://www.medpagetoday.com/PrimaryCare/GeneralPrimaryCare/49399?xid=nl_mpt_DHE_2015-01-07&utm_content=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=DailyHeadlines&utm_source=ST&eun=g578717d0r& Humana achieved these results through greater cooperation and collaboration with providers, Beveridge said. “It’s a lot of work. To do all these things, the health plan needs to provide the doctor with a lot of support,” […]

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How should U.S. regulate powerful painkillers?

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Court: Getting robbed not part of Pa. liquor store manager’s job http://www.delcotimes.com/general-news/20150107/court-getting-robbed-not-part-of-pa-liquor-store-managers-job HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A Pennsylvania state liquor store manager has won back workers’ compensation benefits after an appeals court rejected the state’s claim that getting tied up and robbed at gunpoint was part of the job. Gregory Kochanowicz had been waiting six […]

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Does this graphic represent the state of our healthcare system… in a death spiral… you can pull out of a death spiral but you have to have someone at the controls that knows what they are doing.. By now we have all experienced the wonderful gift of restricted access to care that Aetna has given […]

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This showed up in a closed chronic pain website.. There is a old saying “..what you perceive .. is what you believe …”  Have we become so jaded… that we work off of personal perception(s)… and refuse to investigate – and believe – the FACTS ? My mother started having back and knee problems in […]

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http://www.wnct.com/story/27787152/dea-ruling-affecting-cough-medicine-demand NEW BERN, N.C. – On October 6, 2014, right at the beginning of cold and flu season, the Drug Enforcement Agency changed the popular cough medicine ingredient, hydrocodone, from a schedule III controlled substance as part of the Controlled Substance Act. The ruling is having an impact on how people can receive cough medicine […]

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Alcohol Poisoning Kills 6 Americans a Day, a Federal Report Finds http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/01/07/health/alcohol-poisoning-kills-6-americans-a-day-federal-report-finds.html?_r=1&referrer Six Americans die from alcohol poisoning daily on average, and mortality rates are highest among middle-aged men, federal health authorities reported on Tuesday. The report is the first in a decade by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to tally alcohol poisonings […]

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Former pharmacist files class action against CVS for overtime pay http://pennrecord.com/news/15399-former-pharmacist-files-class-action-against-cvs-for-overtime-pay PHILADELPHIA – More than 1,000 pharmacists are owed unpaid overtime wages from one of the top pharmacy retail stores in the United States, according to a federal class action suit filed last week at the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. […]

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Why painkiller addicts turn to heroin http://wwlp.com/2015/01/05/why-painkiller-addicts-turn-to-heroin/ (CNN) — The face of heroin abuse in America is changing. Back in the 1960s, heroin users were usually young men, who started using around an average age of 16. They were most likely from low-income neighborhoods, and when they turned to opiates, heroin was their first choice. Now, […]

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 1/5/15 – Lawsuit claims doctors shouldn’t have let patient die [Chicago Tribune] http://www.pharmacychoice.com/News/article.cfm?Article_ID=1310541 Jan. 05A lawsuit alleges that doctors at a north suburban hospital wrongly cut off lifesaving care to a 22-year-old man who had overdosed on heroin. The suit, filed in Chicago federal court last month, claims medical personnel at Advocate Condell Medical Center […]

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