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How to conduct a AUTHENTIC APOLOGY… even if you don’t mean it ?
Posted on April 20, 2018 by Pharmaciststeve
They claim that with a GRAND JURY…. a prosecutor could get a “ham sandwich” indicted
Posted on April 20, 2018 by Pharmaciststeve
Trial for doctor linked to Glen Cove overdose begins Opening statements, undercover video in Day 1 of Belfiore opioid trial http://liherald.com/stories/feds-merrick-doctor-a-dealer-not-a-healer,102325 The Merrick physician facing federal charges of illegally prescribing opioids, and causing the overdose deaths of two South Shore men, began on Wednesday, with prosecutors calling Dr. Michael Belfiore “a dealer, not a healer,” […]
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WV: Charleston family says local pharmacy gave out the wrong dose of hepatitis A vaccine
Posted on April 20, 2018 by Pharmaciststeve
http://wvah.com/news/local/charleston-family-says-local-pharmacy-gave-out-the-wrong-dose-of-hepatitis-a-vaccine CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WCHS/WVAH) — With the increase of cases of Hepatitis-A, more people are getting vaccinated, but one Charleston family found out the vaccine they got Thursday was the wrong dose. A Charleston man said he was given the child dose of Hepatitis-A vaccine at the CVS pharmacy on Oakwood Road near Fort Hill. He […]
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TN Nursing Home medication errors (wrong drug, wrong dose, wrong time) to less than 5 percent IS ACCEPTABLE ?
Posted on April 20, 2018 by Pharmaciststeve
Nursing home ranks at bottom https://www.t-g.com/story/2506038.html In a September 2016 court filing, federal prosecutors said Glen Oaks Health and Rehabilitation of Shelbyville was providing “grossly substandard, and/or worthless nursing home services to Medicare and TennCare” patients. Nearly two years later Glen Oaks is still in need of improvements. In recently released reports rating 28 nursing […]
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WV AG: suing the DEA because the national drug quota system had utterly failed our citizens
Posted on April 20, 2018 by Pharmaciststeve
West Virginians weigh opioid response as they look at GOP Senate candidates http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/04/20/west-virginians-weigh-opioid-response-as-look-at-gop-senate-candidates.html CHARLESTON, W. Va. – Republican candidates running in the Mountain State’s Senate primary have spent time in court, in Congress and in a correctional facility. Each has different ideas about how to fix the opioid epidemic, and voters are carefully weighing those […]
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Will PBMs Be the Next Target of Opioid Lawsuits?
Posted on April 20, 2018 by Pharmaciststeve
http://managedhealthcareexecutive.modernmedicine.com/managed-healthcare-executive/news/will-pbms-be-next-target-opioid-lawsuits Although suing physicians and pharmacists over the opioid crisis is nothing new, up until now pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) have been off the radar screen. But in February, a south Texas county included the three largest PBMs—CVS, Express Scripts, and OptumRx as well as some smaller ones operating in Texas—in a nationwide lawsuit focusing […]
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