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Pharmacoeconomics (4) from Loren Pierce on Vimeo. I have a specific  example of how these PBM’s … in our case … Silver Scripts/Caremark which is part of CVS Health.  Barb has a prescription that she has taken for 10+ yrs This particular medication has always required a PA (Prior Authorization) from Silver Scripts, and they […]

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Cancer patients should be treated by their doctors, not pharmacy benefit managers http://https://www.statnews.com/2019/05/09/pharmacy-benefit-managers-cancer-treatment When I must tell a patient that she or he has cancer, that diagnosis comes with the explicit promise that I will provide timely treatment, including medicines aimed at curing cancer or extending life as long as possible. But an insidious interloper […]

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In a huge victory for patients and pharmacists, Georgia governor Brian Kemp signed two PBM anti-steering bills into law yesterday. HB 233 is a bill that prohibits pharmacies from profiting off of prescriptions “steered” from their PBM and insurance affiliates, and HB 323 restricts PBM and insurer patient “steering,” strengthens anti-mandatory mail order, adds additional […]

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FDA is on our side   they need to to have a better head count and understand this is millions not thousands  as a recent paper reported also they need to know other drugs are being abruptly tapered maybe you could spread the word? i think this would work: info@fda.gov  as a portal brief messages: name, […]

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Great-grandmother with CBD oil arrested at Disney World https://www.foxnews.com/travel/grandmother-cbd-arrested-disney-world Disney World may be the most magical place on Earth, but it turned into a legal nightmare for a great-grandmother with arthritis. A 69-year-old woman was arrested at a Disney World checkpoint when an Orange County Deputy found CBD oil in her purse. She then spent […]

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Amid opioid epidemic, report finds more doctors stealing prescriptions https://www.cbsnews.com/news/amid-opioid-epidemic-report-finds-more-doctors-stealing-prescriptions/ When Lauren Lollini went to the hospital for kidney surgery in 2009, she was shocked when she left with hepatitis C and a liver infection. “My life dramatically changed because now I am a 40-year-old woman with a 1-year-old daughter who is so fatigued I […]

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What a new rule in Ohio means for people getting pain meds https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2019/05/06/naloxone-opioid-prescriptions-chronic-pain-ohio-medical-board-rule/3564150002/ Do you or does someone you know have a pain pill prescription? Did naloxone come with the prescription? More Ohioans can expect to discuss that option as a result of a new rule for doctors. Doctors who regularly prescribe pain patients high doses of opioids are now […]

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