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Medicare Advantage Plans Take Top Spot in Shkreli Awards — Lown president calls the list “a tragic comedy of grift and profiteering” https://www.medpagetoday.com/special-reports/features/102564 Medicare Advantage plans took the top spot in this year’s Shkreli Awardsopens in a new tab or window, the annual list from the Lown Institute that calls attention to some of healthcare’s […]
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Probably some definitions and explanations are needed here…. “Private Equity” is “businessmen”, for profit corporations that are acquiring office practices to MAKE MONEY out of owning there practices and often applying “common business practices” to lower overhead expenses and increasing profitability. advanced practice providers (APPs) are also commonly known as mid-level practitioners ( NP, PA, […]
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‘Entire Body Is Shaking’: Why Americans With Chronic Pain Are Dying https://dnyuz.com/2023/01/03/entire-body-is-shaking-why-americans-with-chronic-pain-are-dying/ Anne Fuqua keeps a list of suicide deaths. She’s chronicled hundreds of cases of chronic pain sufferers who have killed themselves after losing access to opioid medication since 2014. Recently, she almost became an entry. Ms. Fuqua, a former nurse, has an incurable […]
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Physicians React: Are They Taking Right Path Now With Pain Management and Opioids? https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/986356 A Medscape report that explores how physicians prioritize substance abuse among leading American social issues also reveals their divergent views about a proper role in pain management through opioids. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention last month updated its guidelines […]
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Jessica Fujimaki suffered from a rare disorder called arachnoiditis. A common cause of this very painful and irreversible health issues is a error or “sloppy technique” of a practitioner doing a ESI procedure ( Epidural Spinal Injection). Anything that is injected into the spinal fluid must not only be sterile but must be preservative free […]
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Could this mean that as the number of prescribers who have completed the new obligatory requirement of taking the 8-hour training on managing patients with opioid and other substance use disorders that all pts that these practitioner who treat for chronic pain could be required to have at least a secondary diagnosis of “opiate use […]
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RE-HEARING CASE 22-6000: BEFORE THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT NORMAN CLEMENT vs. DEA AND THE DEATH OF TRAVIS REYES https://youarewithinthenorms.com/2023/01/04/re-hearing-case-22-6000-before-the-united-states-supreme-court-norman-clement-vs-dea-and-the-death-of-travis-reyes/ The Case 22-6000 Norman Clement vs the DEA before the Supreme Court of the United States Petition for Rehearing involves life and death of millions of patients suffering pain and their healthcare providers treating the […]
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AUSA WAYNE F. PRATT, SMASHED TO THE GROUND BY RON CHAPMAN OF CHAPMAN LAW FIRM AND ATTY’S GEORGE DONNINI AND JOSEPH RICHOTTE: “POMPY FOUND NOT GUILTY !!” SO SAY WE ALL !!! https://youarewithinthenorms.com/2023/01/04/ausa-wayne-f-pratt-smashed-to-the-ground-by-ron-chapman-of-chapman-law-firm-and-attys-george-donnini-and-joseph-richotte-pompy-found-not-guilty-so-say-we-all/ VICTORY FOR LESLY POMPY MD NOT GUILTY ON ALL COUNTS!!! Since becoming fraud unit chief in 2010, the federal officials have successfully […]
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