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Lawsuit: Brandon PD violated HIPAA http://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/2015/12/28/brandon-pd-lawsuit/77979540/ A federal lawsuit filed this month alleges a Brandon Police Department investigator accessed a man’s prescription history without probable cause, a subpoena or a court order, in violation of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. The investigator accessed the information through the state Board of Pharmacy’s Mississippi Prescription […]

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The DEA’s crackdown on pain meds Federal authorities are facilitating a proxy war between doctors and pharmacists, and patients are caught in the middle http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2015/12/dea-crackdown-on-pain-meds.html Over the summer, a federal appeals court in Washington state ruled that pharmacies do not have a right to refuse to fill a patient’s prescription on moral grounds. The plaintiffs […]

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I received a email from a pt after the pt got questioned by their prescriber after running a PMP report on the pt.  After the pt did some investigation, it would seem that the Pharmacist first filled the controlled Rx and decided that it was not enough money from the insurance company and reversed the […]

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Labs, doctors scrutinized over lucrative drug tests for pain-pill abuse http://www.11alive.com/story/news/arizona/investigations/2015/12/26/labs-doctors-scrutinized-over-lucrative-drug-tests-pain-pill-abuse/77181470/ Doctors frequently order patients to take urine drug tests to safeguard against prescription pain-pill abuse. But federal investigators and Medicare say these routine tests — designed to ensure patients properly use opioid drugs — have led to questionable billing practices by some for-profit labs, doctors, and addiction-treatment centers. Millennium Health, the nation’s […]

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