PHARMACIST STEVE

http://www.wlox.com/story/37924468/the-opioid-crises-hurts-those-in-pain-even-more BILOXI, MS (WLOX) – We’ve all heard about the opioid epidemic and the efforts of law enforcement to crack down on abuse.  However, there’s another side of the debate that often gets overlooked: the thousands of people who depend on controlled narcotics to remedy their chronic pain. Dottie Lyons is one of those people.   Lyons can […]

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http://www.healthcarefinancenews.com/news/aetna-whistleblower-accuses-cvs-healths-caremark-fraud-medicare-part-d-drug-prices An unsealed 2014 lawsuit by an Aetna actuary whistleblower against CVS Caremark, the insurer’s pharmacy benefit manager, accuses the PBM of billing the government for prescription drugs at a greater price than it pays to pharmacies. The PBM did not disclose to Aetna how much it was being paid by the pharmacies, nor that […]

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I just never know what is going to show up in my INBOX..  Apparently this little piece is fresh off the digital presses from apparently late yesterday or early this AM. Back in Dec 2017 I had this post on my blog  CVS Pharmacy Will Limit Prescriptions for Opioids Apparently those who have Caremark as […]

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https://reason.com/blog/2018/04/09/medicare-agency-retreats-from-arbitrary Under the final rule, pharmacists may fill high-dose opioid prescriptions as long as they verify them. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has retreated from a proposed rule that would have forced many patients to choose between living in agony and shelling out thousands of dollars more every year for pain medication. […]

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