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Starting July 1st Blue Cross Plan of Mass plans on limiting the amount of short term opiates that can prescribed and making all long term opiates requiring a PA.. that is unless you are terminally ill. They are concerned that 30,000 of their 2.8 MILLION insured got short acting opiates for more than 30 days.. […]

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Here is a another fatal error by a “teenaged technician“… and according to the attorney for the family… “justice has finally been served after eight years in which Walgreens has dragged out this litigation.” Even though the woman had to cease her chemotherapy for a early stage cancer and subsequencly died.. Walgreens apparently drug out the […]

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After all these years as a Pharmacist, I  always had the understanding that the BOP’s primary charge was to protect public health and safety… how nieve of me… here is a posting from the RI BOP’s look for board members… And here is a description of what the BOP does The board establishes standards for […]

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Here is a article from the WASHINGTON TIMES When you read into the article you discover the underlying reason for this change By removing the prescription requirement from popular drugs, the Obama administration could ease financial pressures on the overburdened Medicare system by paying for fewer doctor visits and possibly opening the door to make […]

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This is a term that doesn’t seem to be in our vocabulary much anymore. or has this morphed into “metrics”… which.. those of us with a real patient focus knows that one does not have much to do with the other. While it is true that a good pharmacy tech can do 90%+ of what […]

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There is a article that would suggest that generic company’s products are not held to the same liability standards as the brand name product. So the insurance industry is mandating generics both as generic substitution, therapeutic interchange and step therapy… to the point that some 75%-85% generic utilization is common place. Is this the same […]

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TV Commercial The ad people at Walgreens has come up with this new TV commercial.. has anyone seen a Pharmacist act like this in ANY PHARMACY? Conjures up memories of the old “war on drugs ” commercial… “… this is your brain – egg shown – then this is your brain on drugs… showing frying […]

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According to this article The Federal judge hearing the NACDS – NCPA & others lawsuit against the Medco/ESI merger.. will not issue a temporary injunction… with this justification “An order holding separate Medco from Express Scripts … would result in a headless organization that would likely be unable to survive on its own, much less […]

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I normally do not procrastinate about my CE’s done for the year… My state association normally provides enough CE via written CE for the entire year. Typically, I send in the paperwork in Jan of the year… I get the certificate …scan it into my laptop and seldom have to access the information ever again. […]

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Here is an interesting article Bureaucrats focusing their concerns about monies being spent on anti-psychotic and pain meds.. we all  have to be concerned fraud and abuse… but to focus on people with subjective diseases (mental health & pain)… why isolate the top three prescribers… why not the top FIVE or top TEN? These pts […]

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