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http://wric.com/2017/12/14/hidden-fees-at-the-pharmacy-why-it-may-be-cheaper-not-to-use-your-insurance/ RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — A woman uses her insurance to purchase the drug Sprintec. Her copay was $50. However, if she didn’t use her insurance and paid cash for the drug, it would only have cost her $11.65. That’s a difference of $38.35. This is called a copay clawback. It’s a little-known secret driving up […]
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Officials call opioid abuse a ‘pandemic http://www.neshobademocrat.com/Content/NEWS/News/Article/Officials-call-opioid-abuse-a-pandemic-/2/297/42265 The growing impact of opioids in Philadelphia and other communities was discussed at a town hall meeting last week where an officer with the state Bureau of Narcotics told about 75 people in attendance that the nation was “on the brink of a super pandemic.” Lt. Jon Harless […]
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In Judiciary Hearing, Bipartisan Senators Set Record Straight on DEA/Opioid Legislation Washington, DC—This morning, the Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing to review the Ensuring Patient Access and Effective Drug Enforcement Act—a bill that was passed in the previous Congress to clarify the Drug Enforcement Administration’s enforcement authority with regard to the medicine supply chain. […]
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Kentucky’s top agriculture official: DEA wrong to call hemp products illegal https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/crime/2017/12/14/hemp-oil-hemp-seeds-legal-kentucky-dea/951836001/ Ryan Quarles, Kentucky’s Agriculture Commissioner, fired a letter to the head of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration this week asking to meet to discuss “federal overreach” with industrial hemp. “I was dumbfounded when I read a Louisville Courier-Journal article that was titled, ‘Are you breaking […]
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The “fishing” operation went on to target a total of 4,500 to 5,000 drugstores present in the area. The DEA officers accumulated all the drug tracking that they had gathered, and combined it with the data that was received from insurance and billing, provided by the Department of Health and Human Services, the state-level prescription […]
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Harris County sues drugmakers, doctors over opioid epidemic https://www.click2houston.com/news/harris-county-to-sue-drug-makers-doctors-over-opioid-epidemic Ryan said that the those named in the lawsuit put profits above the public good when advertising and prescribing the powerful painkillers. He said lies, half-truths and deception were used to foster the use of the drugs. The doctors named in the lawsuit by Dallas defense […]
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https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/09/02/upshot/fentanyl-drug-overdose-deaths.html The first governmental account of nationwide drug deaths in 2016 shows overdose deaths growing even faster than previously thought. Related Article Drug overdoses killed roughly 64,000 people in the United States last year, according to the first governmental account of nationwide drug deaths to cover all of 2016. It’s a staggering rise of […]
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