Inside a drug pricing contract.. how pts and pharmacies get financially SCREWED ?

Posted on March 22, 2018 by Pharmaciststeve

https://www.axios.com/inside-express-scripts-pbm-contract-8be2f09d-cbfa-4275-9855-7bc9c4fcc1a7.html A contract template used by Express Scripts, the largest pharmacy benefit manager in the U.S., provides a window into how pharmacy benefit managers — middlemen that manage drug coverage for businesses throughout the country — steer negotiations with drug companies to benefit their own financial interests. Why it matters: These benefit managers have a […]

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ACLU wants to protect women from being discriminated by healthcare… but only very narrow disease issues ?

Posted on March 22, 2018 by Pharmaciststeve

Hi Steve – Religious liberty is not a license to discriminate and harm. Yet Trump’s Department of Health and Human Services wants to let health care providers use their religious beliefs to justify turning away patients in need. This is a betrayal of the department’s own mission, and it could have disastrous consequences – particularly […]

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Sometimes the Journal of the AMA Gets It Wrong! And so do careless journalists.

Posted on March 22, 2018 by Pharmaciststeve

https://www.acsh.org/news/2018/03/21/sometimes-journal-ama-gets-it-wrong-and-so-do-careless-journalists-12731 On March 6, 2018, the Journal of the American Medical Association published a 12-month randomized clinical trial [authors Erin E Krebs, Amy Gravely, Beth DeRonne, Elizabeth Goldsmith, and others] which compared opioids to non-opioid medications for treatment of moderate to severe osteoarthritis and back pain among 240 Veterans Administration patients.  In the days since publication, […]

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