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15 health systems dropping Medicare Advantage plans | 2024 https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/finance/15-health-systems-dropping-medicare-advantage-plans-2024.html Medicare Advantage provides health coverage to more than half of the nation’s seniors, but some hospitals and health systems are opting to end their contracts with MA plans over administrative challenges. Among the most commonly cited reasons are excessive prior authorization denial rates and slow […]

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  Warren Blasts United Health CEO for Monopolistic Practices that Harm Patients

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WHO Warns of Counterfeit Ozempic in the Global Supply Chain—Here’s What to Know https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2821502 The World Health Organization (WHO) is warning of counterfeit Ozempic discovered in 2023 in regulated supply chains in Brazil, the UK, and the US, amid an uptick in similar reports worldwide. Besides potentially being ineffective, fake versions of the drug pose […]

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Protesters say 11 arrested outside UnitedHealthcare HQ in Minnetonka https://www.startribune.com/unitedhealth-protest-minnetonka-arrests/600380907/ Warren Blasts United Health CEO for Monopolistic Practices that Harm Patients Critics have held a series of events highlighting what they describe as a pattern of improper coverage denials by the nation’s largest health insurer. Protest organizers say 11 people were arrested Monday outside UnitedHealthcare’s […]

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In this interview on Fox Cable Fox & Friends today, they were actually talking about illicit street fentanyl analog that is killing our citizens. Not just stating that the person OD’d from Fentanyl. There are some 100-200 known different Fentanyl analogs and only two are approved by the FDA to be used in humans.  Fentanyl […]

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https://cdernextgenportal.fda.gov/publicportal/s/dsm-submission FDA’s new reporting of drug shortages

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APDF works so hard to change policy! We will do just about anything to help pain patients! Washington State Patients please read and help! Maria Higginbotham is my mentor and best friend! She works so hard even with her disabilities and needs your help in Washington State! Thank you all! Bob, can you post to […]

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Mississippi congressman’s staffer says ‘don’t miss next time’ after Trump assassination attempt https://justthenews.com/nation/states/center-square/mississippi-congressmans-field-director-says-dont-miss-next-time A now-deleted Facebook post by a staffer of Mississippi’s lone Democrat congressman appeared to support the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump on Saturday. The deleted post by Jacqueline Marsaw, a field director for U.S. Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Mississippi, said “I […]

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Biden Threat ‘To Put Trump in a Bullseye’ Met With Shrugs, in Contrast With Firestorm Over Palin ‘Crosshairs’ https://www.nysun.com/article/biden-threat-to-put-trump-in-a-bullseye-met-with-shrugs-in-contrast-with-firestorm-over-palin-crosshairs “It’s time to put Trump in a bullseye,” President Biden is heard telling supporters in a recent conversation. Will he be accused of advocating violence the way, say, Governor Palin of Alaska was accused of inspiring […]

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