Next version of DUMB & DUMBER COMING ?

Posted on January 4, 2013 by Pharmaciststeve

Patrick announces legislation overhauling pharmacy board http://www.boston.com/whitecoatnotes/2013/01/04/patrick-announces-legislation-overhauling-pharmacy-board/tTgBfkEtsjFHAXjdhDIMyI/story.html MA BOP back in the news … From the article: Governor Deval Patrick announced on Friday planned legislation to reorganize the state board of pharmacy to add professionals from other fields and to give the board the authority to regulate out-of-state compounding pharmacies that distribute drugs in Massachusetts. […]

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Is it incompetency, apathy, laziness or … ???

Posted on January 3, 2013 by Pharmaciststeve

We have all seen what happened with the MA BOP and the NECC fiasco … Whistler Blower has stated that the PA BOP is seemingly a clone of the MA BOP… I received this today from a RPh’s that had sent his/her BOP a email questioning if the documentation in hand showed that their employer […]

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Another anti-healthcare effect of Obamacare

Posted on January 3, 2013 by Pharmaciststeve

As of Jan 1, 2013… those people that used FSA (Flexible Spending Account) to pay for healthcare expenditures such as deductibles and copays and things not covered by insurance.  This was all “tax free” money. Now the Feds have placed a limit of $2500.00/yr per employee. Likewise, if a person/couple itemizes deductions.. previously 7.5% of  […]

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I don’t know rather to be pissed or disappointed !

Posted on January 2, 2013 by Pharmaciststeve

I wrote about our media/society’s 180 degree change within one week after the Newtown shooting.. from being concerned about people with mental health  ONE WEEK LATER  now we have the hypocrites using their “star power” to promote more gun control.. when the real stats are that murders are down 33% while the population has increased […]

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Another stealth middleman wanting a piece of the pie ?

Posted on January 1, 2013 by Pharmaciststeve

This is more information from Dave Marley PUTT is in the process of having our lawyer look over a number of “standard” contracts that the PSAOs (the companies independent pharmacies use to sign their managed care contracts) issue to their pharmacies. There has been a growing realization that the relationship between the Pharmacy>PSAO>PBM is very […]

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You have to wonder .. is it about politics ?

Posted on January 1, 2013 by Pharmaciststeve

This is part of a email that I got from Dave Marley We recently heard from the producers we had been working with (for over a year) at NBC-Rock Center that our story has been cancelled. While they had filmed over 6 different interviews, they recently had a new Executive Producer take over who believed […]

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