Saving Money For Medicaid in WV

Posted on January 19, 2019 by Pharmaciststeve

http://www.theintelligencer.net/opinion/editorials/2018/12/saving-money-for-medicaid In 2017, West Virginia was faced with growing Medicaid costs — particularly when it came to prescription drugs. So state government cut out the middlemen, pharmacy benefit managers, and turned to a streamlined system that utilizes West Virginia University’s School of Pharmacy to recommend drugs for patients, instead. The move saved the Mountain State […]

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why it takes so DAMN LONG to get your prescription filled at a chain pharmacy

Posted on January 19, 2019 by Pharmaciststeve

  How to find a local independent pharmacy/Pharmacist

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They say you can’t buy a politician.. what about a LONG TERM LEASE ?

Posted on January 19, 2019 by Pharmaciststeve

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study, could not differentiate between overdose deaths involving painkillers that are prescribed versus illicitly acquired

Posted on January 19, 2019 by Pharmaciststeve

Study Links Drug Maker Gifts for Doctors to More Overdose Deaths www.nytimes.com/2019/01/18/health/opioids-doctors-overdose-deaths.html WASHINGTON — A new study offers some of the strongest evidence yet of the connection between the marketing of opioids to doctors and the nation’s addiction epidemic. It found that counties where opioid manufacturers offered a large number of gifts and payments to […]

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Top California doctors group seeks legislation to ensure pain prescriptions get filled

Posted on January 19, 2019 by Pharmaciststeve

  Top California doctors group seeks legislation to ensure pain prescriptions get filled https://www.sacbee.com/news/state/california/article224581310.html The California Medical Association is working to get legislation introduced — perhaps as early as this week — that will alleviate a problem with prescription forms that has pharmacists across the state rejecting patients who bring doctors’ orders for pain medications. […]

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