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Killing Them Quietly https://www.daily-remedy.com/killing-them-quietly/ Government versus Medicine A war is raging in America today, between physicians treating pain and addiction, and the United States federal government (mostly the DEA) on the proper practice of medicine. While the federal government is forbidden by law from trying to influence the practice of medicine, according to Lambert v. […]
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Encourage patients to submit complaints to Medicare https://ncpa.org/newsroom/qam/2024/03/27/encourage-patients-submit-complaints-medicare Patients across the country are facing issues filling prescriptions due to patient steering and PBM network issues. Encourage your patients to reach out to Medicare directly through their online complaint form or call Medicare directly. We’ve added that contact information into a printer-friendly document that you can […]
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I have read stories, that these insurance/pbm companies hire retired physicians to review the prior authorization process. Those articles also stated that those physicians are paid a BONUS based on the percentage of what the insurance/pbm saves from denial of coverage of a specific product or service. These physicians are paid their BONUS weekly. The […]
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How Reporters Caught Payers Using Algorithms https://www.daily-remedy.com/how-reporters-caught-payers-using-algorithms/ In a call with a long-time source, what stood out most to STAT reporters Bob Herman and Casey Ross was just how viscerally frustrated and angry the source was about an algorithm used by insurance companies to decide how long patients should stay in a nursing home or […]
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FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES MARCH 22, 2024: “THE D.E.A. NEEDS TO STAY OUT OF MEDICINE” BY DR. SHRAVANI DURBHAKULA, MD, A PAIN MEDICINE PHYSICIAN FROM NASHVILLE & LYRICS FROM BIGGY SMALLS-NEW YORK IDENTIFYING D.E.A. -CORRUPTION
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Our Congress passed a 1000+ page continued resolution to continue the funding of our government through the end of our fiscal year (09/30/2024). With 1.2 Trillion dollar patch to our federal spending, members of Congress had < 24 hrs to those 1,000+ pages BEFORE THEY HAD TO VOTE ON THIS BILL. Congress is required by […]
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Medicare Advantage Is Under Fire. What It Means for Your Health—and Wallet. https://www.barrons.com/articles/medicare-advantage-medigap-choice-healthcare-retirement-3bb736e4 Insurers may cut back on benefits as their profits get squeezed. Why a Medicare/Medigap plan could be a better deal for consumers. Marcia Mantell won’t be eligible for Medicare for a few years yet. But she’s sure of one thing: Pitchmen like […]
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JAIL!!! FOR DR. TIM E. KING, MD, DOJ-DEA’S DR. JOSEPH MENGELE, MD, THEIR TW0 CLONES OF INHUMANITY AND EUGENICS; JAIL !!! OVERSIGHT!!!! FOR THE KING RAT!!! JAIL!!!
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In America, covered medications on the list of covered drugs and drug prices are so deceptive that they we are losing so many beajtiful people. Another life is lost for the profits of a billion dollar industry. It’ll only get worse as too many remain silent.
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A recent study aiming to find factors that increase risk of opioid overdose in chronic pain patients instead found that overdose is vanishingly rare, despite the researcher’s best efforts to obscure the truth. This recent Systemic Review and meta-analysis of almost 24 million patients set out to find what risk factors lead to opioid […]
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