The “SECOND OPINION” on your medical treatment that you don’t know about or ask for ?

Posted on February 22, 2016 by Pharmaciststeve

CVS Health Touts Restrained Prescription Spending Growth http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/cvs-health-touts-restrained-prescription-spending-growth-37126623 CVS Health is refining its prescription for controlling drug costs, and patients can expect more frequent coverage adjustments, as the pharmacy benefits manager pours over data and reacts to expense spikes. The Woonsocket, Rhode Island, company says changes to its formularies, or lists of covered drugs, and […]

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It is PUT UP or SHUT UP time for the FL BOP… document.. document… document

Posted on February 22, 2016 by Pharmaciststeve

Thanks for the new law in Florida I called the Fl complaint dept from that site and they suggest I should send in the complaint form with all the documentation and letter because of the new law that was passed they should follow these guild line and not just refuse cause they don’t feel comfortable […]

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Lawyers can be found for denial of care because of cost… but CPP seems to be SOL ?

Posted on February 22, 2016 by Pharmaciststeve

Lawsuit targets Medicaid policy that limits spendy hepatitis C drugs http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/health/lawsuit-targets-medicaid-policy-that-limits-spendy-hep-c-drugs/ A new lawsuit seeks to force state Medicaid officials to revoke a policy limiting high-priced drugs to treat hepatitis C to only the sickest patients. After a similar suit last month, a private insurer changed its policy. Two weeks after suing private insurers for […]

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So you think that a NATIONAL INSURANCE PROGRAM could be a good thing ?

Posted on February 22, 2016 by Pharmaciststeve

Faye Burdett’s death from meningitis B is harrowing, but public opinion should not trump scientific judgement A vaccine against meningitis B, has been available since last year – but only to babies born on or after 1 July http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/faye-burdetts-death-from-meningitis-b-is-harrowing-but-public-opinion-should-not-trump-scientific-a6889871.html You would have needed a heart of stone not to be moved by the pictures of […]

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National Governors Association… don’t FEEL YOUR PAIN !

Posted on February 22, 2016 by Pharmaciststeve

Obama Rejects Limits on Opioid Prescribing http://www.painnewsnetwork.org/stories/2016/2/22/obama-rejects-limits-on-opioid-prescribing By Pat Anson, Editor President Barack Obama declined to endorse a sweeping proposal by some governors to put limits on the number of opioid painkillers that doctors can prescribe, saying such a policy would be unfair to rural Americans who don’t have access to other pain treatments. “If […]

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If you can’t stop them.. help them from killing themselves ?

Posted on February 22, 2016 by Pharmaciststeve

Mayor wants to open supervised injection facility for heroin in NY city http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/02/22/mayor-wants-to-open-supervised-injection-facility-for-heroin-in-ny-city.html?intcmp=hpbt3 Drugs can’t be purchased at Insite in Vancouver, though they can be carried and injected there. (supervisedinjection.vch.ca) One upstate New York city is planning an unconventional approach to combating a growing heroin epidemic: Letting addicts shoot up on government property under the […]

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