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A shocking revelation by Congress is calling into question Americans’ right to privacy about their health, and if private medical data can be used criminally against you. In a letter to the Department of Health and Human Services, lawmakers share their concerns over how the nation’s largest pharmacy chains handle requests for records from law […]
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https://www.wjfw.com/news/it-has-everything-to-do-with-politics-and-money-and-had-nothing-to-do-with/article_65021442-0f0b-11ef-8231-7fc629d78536.html Pharmacy benefit managers or PBMs for short, now wield nearly limitless power and influence over the prescription drug market owning at least 85% of pharmaceutical industry. Their tight grip on the market has allowed them to engage in unfair pricing practices with very little oversight. They can raise the price you and your insurance […]
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A Philadelphia pharmacy’s closure after 26 years highlights the industry’s growing challenges https://www.dailyitem.com/wire/business/a-philadelphia-pharmacy-s-closure-after-26-years-highlights-the-industry-s-growing-challenges/article_156e7cfc-4a50-522d-b99a-2212bb3b1f92.amp.html Last Monday, Friendly Pharmacy filled 318 prescriptions. For about 100 of them, insurance companies paid the pharmacy less than $3. In 22 instances that day, the reimbursement was less than the cost of the medication. And that’s just among the prescriptions that […]
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FDA issues ‘most serious type of recall’ for insulin pump-related iOS app https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/fda-issues-most-serious-type-of-recall-for-insulin-pump-related-ios-app/ar-BB1mg98J The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has issued a Class I “most serious type of recall” for an iOS app used in conjunction with an insulin pump. The “correction” as referred to by the FDA on Wednesday, rather than a product removal, […]
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Be careful what you post in titles. I have a post concerning a chronic pain pt Robert Charles Foster who had lost his pain meds and ended up getting cops to end his pain FOR GOOD. Apparently, there was a couple of words in the title that did not meet FB’s “community standards” and they […]
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Editorial: To save local pharmacies, state must rein in the middlemen https://www.post-gazette.com/opinion/editorials/2024/05/09/pharmacy-benefit-manager-reform-insurance-reimbursements-express-scripts/stories/202405090037 Pharmacies in Western Pennsylvania are closing at an alarming clip, pushed out of business by a complex, opaque and utterly broken medication reimbursement system. The state legislature, following the recommendation of Gov. Josh Shapiro, must act to bring transparency and accountability to the […]
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you may have to click on graphic to properly enlarge it Vertical integration visualized https://ncpa.org/newsroom/qam/2024/05/08/vertical-integration-visualized We all know what it means, but what does it look like? Each year Drug Channels updates its chart of vertically integrated insurers, PBMs, specialty pharmacies, and providers—all of which, Drug Channels editors point out, face renewed scrutiny from […]
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the 1+ minute audio file below is from a chronic pain pt who reached out to me for assistance. Apparently, a Wags Pharmacist refused to fill this pt’s controlled Rx. This pt reached out to me via FB chat. It took me ~ 90 minutes just for the pt to tell me who the pt’s […]
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Here is a example of how our judicial system in VERY INCONSISTENT Pain Management Physician Convicted of Unlawfully Distributing Opioids The Physician looks at the potential of 480 yrs in prison over prescribing 9 pts three different controlled meds over 6 yrs, BUT NO OVERDOSE DEATHS! In the below article NINE OD DEATHS, Five people […]
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