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Opioid bills could net millions for companies ‘For years, we got the scraps. And now we’re the big time,’ says an anti-addiction consultant. https://www.politico.com/story/2018/06/22/house-opioid-bills-lobbying-637695 The House is touting passage of dozens of bills that could help combat the national opioid crisis — but a small handful of companies that have spent millions lobbying Congress could […]
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CVS Exploits PBM Role, and Taxpayers Pay https://www.wsj.com/articles/cvs-exploits-pbm-role-and-taxpayers-pay-1529956036 Recently, CVS accused the Journal (Letters, June 8) of mischaracterizing its pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) operation. Thomas Moriarty is right to contend that the PBM’s role “is to negotiate the best price possible for patients and clients,” but wrong to pretend that large PBMs are accomplishing that […]
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Marine Veteran Files Lawsuit Against VA, Roe https://www.greenevillesun.com/news/local_news/marine-veteran-files-lawsuit-against-va-roe/article_c465ebfa-b517-58e2-92e8-1bdf906be605.html A Marine veteran who suffered a debilitating service-related injury filed a lawsuit Monday in U.S. District Court in Greeneville seeking a total of $350 million in damages from defendants that include employees of the Mountain Home Veterans’ Affairs Medical Center and U.S. Rep. Phil Roe. Robert D. […]
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http://www.cantonrep.com/news/20180624/cvs-cut-payments-to-community-pharmacies-after-aetna-merger Some pharmacists question the timing of the reimbursement reductions and say they think it was no coincidence. They question whether CVS Caremark used that reduction to help raise $70 billion to merge with Aetna and create a health conglomerate that would include CVS Caremark, the nation’s No. 2 pharmacy-benefit manager; Aetna, the No. 3 […]
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An ‘Overprescription of Opioids’ That Led to a Crisis https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2018/06/opioid-epidemic/563576/ In 2016, 64,000 people died from drug overdoses in the U.S., most of them due to opioids. That’s more than the number of Americans killed in the wars in Vietnam and Iraq combined. Three factors led to those numbers, Nora Volkow, director of the National […]
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https://www.kcentv.com/article/news/nation-world/walgreens-pharmacist-denies-pregnant-woman-miscarriage-medication-over-his-ethical-beliefs/500-567059928 An Arizona woman says a Walgreens pharmacist denied her prescription medication during one of the toughest moments of her life. Author: Stephen Adams, Tim Chong Published: 6:11 PM CDT June 23, 2018 Updated: 6:45 PM CDT June 23, 2018 Nicole Arteaga was looking forward to the birth of her second child. Already a […]
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Teamsters Local 727 Notifies Top CVS Executives of CVS Negotiators’ Unwillingness to Reach a Deal www.teamsterslocal727.org/teamsters-local-727-notifies-top-cvs-executives-of-cvs-negotiators-unwillingness-to-reach-a-deal/ Union Demands Fair Treatment and Good Faith Bargaining for Pharmacists Earlier this month, Teamsters Local 727 Secretary-Treasurer John Coli, Jr., wrote letters to 25 executives at CVS detailing the disrespectful and upsetting manner in which local Company representatives and […]
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http://www.courant.com/news/connecticut/hc-news-cvs-lawsuit-wrong-cream-20180622-story.html A Clinton man has filed a lawsuit against CVS Pharmacy for giving him the wrong cream to rub on his groin area that caused bleeding and a serious infection. In a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in New Haven this week Warren Schumack said he went to his local CVS Pharmacy in October […]
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I routinely get phone calls and I just never know who is going to be on the other line.. other than those who wish to help me lower my credit card interest rate.. of which I don’t have any outstanding balances on them 🙂 And then there are the ones from the “IRS” that is […]
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