PHARMACIST STEVE

Segment on Fox News interviewing medical doctor/specialist and associate professor at medical university on the recent medication mix up at CVS  . Opinioned that independent pharmacies are SAFER than mail order and chain pharmacies….

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The Pharmaceutical Care Management Association (PCMA)     Put out the above ad… making accusations that the community pharmacies are seemingly willingly participants in legal drugs getting to the streets. I won’t get into all the medications these “mail order firms” put out in the hot/cold all those prescription medications that are exposed to extremes […]

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CVS/pharmacy promotes importance of a ‘pharmacy home’   Here is a article where CVS  has come to this conclusion from a Harvard study… that a patient should have a face-to-face interaction with their Pharmacist.  but I guess that their Caremark mail order is just one of CVS’s MANY FACES and forcing patients to severe their […]

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As a nation every dollar that we spend we are borrowing $0.40. Lets look at the DEA… started in the late 60’s as the BNDD ( Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs)… does anyone believe that the DEA has made any progress in this war.. which actually started with the Harrison Narcotic Act 1914 – […]

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It was reported in a USA TODAY article that 75% of the pharmacy boards have chain execs sitting on them. There have been various reporters ask some of these execs if this is not a conflict of interest?… Their typical reply is that they recuse themselves from any discussion decisions involving their company or one […]

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CVS makes more mistakes while claiming – per the article – such prescription mix-ups are “rare occurrences, This story – IMO – is so full of holes… The pharmacy has acknowledged improperly dispensing Tamoxifen instead of chewable fluoride tablets to children in as many as 50 families between Dec. 1 and Feb. 20 Mike DeAngelis, […]

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View this video … Make a mental picture of corporate pharmacy being represented by the dog in this clip and Pharmacists being represented by the cat… once the cat gets fed up with the crap/threats out of the dog… I was at a presentation years ago by a gentlemen by the name of Ed Grief… […]

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It has been reported that the insurance industry has a 20%-30% overhead.. basically that overhead is juggling the paperwork in prior authorizations (PA) and coming up with reasons not to pay a claim and/or defending their their decision if/when the patient files an appeal… It is also reported that the Medicare part A/B carriers have […]

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Here is an amendment to a bill SB407 now in the Indiana Legislative… Representative Craig Fry offered an amendment that will require pharmacies to post a sign that tells notice of the following information: That federal law requires that a pharmacy ensure that a customer who is blind or visually impaired is not subject to […]

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According to a article in DRUG TOPICS AAP joins nationwide alliance of pharmacies forming RxAlly This alliance joins 20K pharmacies.. that means potentially 1/3 of the entire community pharmacy network could become one single negotiating entity for third party contracts 🙂 It has been reported that Walgreens is encouraging their Pharmacists to encourage the ESI […]

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