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AMERICAN PAIN AND DISABILITY FOUNDATION: We are all set up to go and advocate for a child with a government representative from the State of Tennessee. I knew these kids were something from the beginning and they were willing to fight for themselves and for us! I put the time, money, sweat, and most of […]
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Healthcare System Sues Cigna Over Emergency Care Reimbursements https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=a1c5223f-0d66-40a1-8d43-078765fafa0a Tenet Healthcare and nineteen of its hospitals filed a complaint against Cigna Health and Life Insurance Company in Connecticut Superior Court, alleging that Cigna had reimbursed its claims at unfair and unreasonable rates. The plaintiffs also allege that Cigna wrongfully denied claims for emergency medical services, […]
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Nuts. Fruit. Cookies and pound cake. Even potato chips. You don’t have to look hard to find things that are coated in chocolate. But people? Never. But that’s what happened last week in Lancaster County, Pa., at the Mars Wrigley plant. Two plant employees were rescued after getting trapped in a large tank of chocolate […]
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I don’t normally step on the “third rail”… how many times have we seen practitioners “taken out” with the FACTS from the DEA that they violated some “red flags”… none of which are defined in the controlled substance act and more often than not… the DEA uncovered these “red flag violations” by data mining the […]
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A New Injectable Gel May Greatly Reduce Chronic Low Back Pain https://neurosciencenews.com/hydrogel-back-pain-20785/ Summary: Hydrafil, an experimental injectable hydrogel appears to be safe and effective in reducing chronic lower back pain associated with degenerative disc disease. Source: Society of Interventional Radiology An experimental formulation of a hydrogel, injected into spinal discs, proved safe and effective in […]
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https://secure.everyaction.com/-zpZ45w3Ekyv-yL0Q9cIpQ2 About 40,000 people showed up in D.C., according to organizers, and protests were also planned through the day in major cities including New York, Chicago, Las Vegas and Los Angeles. About 300 people showed up to protest in West Melbourne, Florida, and some 400 people marched through Old Town in Fort Collins, Colorado. The March for Our Lives events […]
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This appeared to really starting to happen with the Tobacco settlement in 1998… in which 46 state AG’s and some law firms suited the 4 major tobacco manufacturers and 4 states settled outside of the lawsuit and in the first 20 yrs there was abt 135 BILLION dollars shared with those states.. I tried to […]
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Bump in Non-Opioid Pain Prescriptions Following CDC’s 2016 Guidelines https://www.medpagetoday.com/painmanagement/painmanagement/99183 Non-opioid pain medication prescribing increased after the CDC published guidelines on opioids for chronic pain in 2016, according to a cohort study using insurance claims data. Among over 15 million individuals, logistic regression models showed that the odds of non-opioid pain prescriptions were higher following […]
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Chronic pain groups, wow!!! Just wow!! Many claim to be advocates and the upper management boasts about all their accomplishments when actually they do little to nothing to actually make a difference. I joined DPPR – Don’t Punish Pain Rally National & state level after a parent passed away suddenly when their medication was discontinued […]
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Walgreens Sues Hospital Over New In-House Pharmacy https://www.medpagetoday.com/special-reports/exclusives/99119 Retail pharmacy giant says it will suffer “substantial, immediate, and irreparable harm Walgreens has filed a lawsuit against Hagerstown, Maryland-based Meritus Health after the community hospital and health system opened an independent pharmacy in the lobby of its flagship medical center. The retail pharmacy giant alleged that […]
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