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What is the pharmacy’s responsibility in filling an rx that they don’t have in stock? I live in Oklahoma. All schedule 2 Rxs must be submitted electronically ( or so I’ve bee told). Pharmacy law here states schedule 2 Rxs cant be transferred. How do I obtain my medication without having to wait another day […]
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Prescribing Opioids: How Many Are Too Many? www.nytimes.com/2018/06/19/opinion/prescription-opioid-crisis.html What’s the right painkiller prescription to send home with a patient after gallbladder surgery or a cesarean section? That question is front and center as conventional approaches to pain control in the United States contribute, in the opinion of some experts, to a culture of overprescribing that […]
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https://www.whas11.com/article/news/local/pharmacies-refuse-prescriptions-from-clinic-under-federal-investigation/417-565436888 While the doctors can legally prescribe medication, pharmacies are telling patients they will not fill prescriptions from Bluegrass Pain Consultants, leaving patients wondering how they will get their medication. Author: Derrick Rose Published: 6:36 PM EDT June 18, 2018 Updated: 6:59 PM EDT June 18, 2018 LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WHAS11) Last week’s raid of a […]
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http://www.wave3.com/story/38449036/pain-clinic-reopens-after-fbi-raid-patients-still-having-problems LOUISVILLE, KY (WAVE) – A pain management clinic that was closed after it was raided by the FBI and DEA is back open. The three offices of Bluegrass Pain Consultants in Louisville and LaGrange abruptly closed on June 12, 2018. Patients who had appointments and those whose prescriptions were running out were left in […]
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We shopped at Walgreens and CVS to see which was a better drugstore, and there was a clear winner http://www.businessinsider.com/walgreens-cvs-what-is-the-best-drugstore-2018-6 Walgreens and CVS are drugstore chains that sell everything from groceries to greeting cards. Both stores have pharmacies that offer services like free flu shots. Walgreens and CVS offer similar rewards programs that can earn […]
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I’m disabled and handicapped, I got valid prescription from my pain management specialist and I took my prescription to Wal-Mart in @ the Spring Mills location in Martinsburg, WV. I don’t know what I’m suppose to do next, I cannot afford to pay for it and they wrote on it so no other pharmacy will […]
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http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2018/06/15/caught-on-video-er-doctor-mocking-patient-los-gatos/ LOS GATOS (KPIX 5) – A South Bay hospital has suspended an emergency room physician after she was recorded mocking and laughing at a patient. Samuel Bardwell said he was rushed by ambulance to El Camino Hospital in Los Gatos after collapsing during basketball practice on Monday. He was not able to speak, was […]
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Ex-Hospice Manager Pleads Guilty in $60M Fraud Scheme https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/Ex-Hospice-Manager-Admits-Scheme-to-Drug-Patients-to-Hasten-Their-Deaths-485624571.html A former manager of a North Texas hospice has pleaded guilty to health care fraud, admitting her role in a $60 million scheme that involved drugging patients to “hasten their deaths,” according to court documents. Jessica Love was the registered nurse case manager and regional director […]
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https://www.painnewsnetwork.org/stories/2018/6/15/bad-policy-in-the-name-of-fighting-opioid-addiction (Editor’s note: Last month, PNN reported on the “Post-Surgical Injections as an Opioid Alternative Act,” one of dozens of bills Congress is considering to combat the opioid crisis. HR 5804 would raise Medicare’s reimbursement rate for epidurals and other spinal injections used to treat post-surgical pain. The bill – which was lobbied for by […]
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https://www.painnewsnetwork.org/stories/2018/6/7/cdc-report-ignores-suicides-by-pain-patients The suicide rate in the United States continues to climb, with nearly 45,000 people taking their own lives in 2016, according to a new Vital Signs report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The suicide rate in the U.S. is so high it rivals the so-called “opioid epidemic.” The number of Americans […]
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