Posted on March 30, 2024 by Pharmaciststeve
Killing Them Quietly https://www.daily-remedy.com/killing-them-quietly/ Government versus Medicine A war is raging in America today, between physicians treating pain and addiction, and the United States federal government (mostly the DEA) on the proper practice of medicine. While the federal government is forbidden by law from trying to influence the practice of medicine, according to Lambert v. […]
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Posted on March 28, 2024 by Pharmaciststeve
Encourage patients to submit complaints to Medicare https://ncpa.org/newsroom/qam/2024/03/27/encourage-patients-submit-complaints-medicare Patients across the country are facing issues filling prescriptions due to patient steering and PBM network issues. Encourage your patients to reach out to Medicare directly through their online complaint form or call Medicare directly. We’ve added that contact information into a printer-friendly document that you can […]
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Posted on March 24, 2024 by Pharmaciststeve
I have read stories, that these insurance/pbm companies hire retired physicians to review the prior authorization process. Those articles also stated that those physicians are paid a BONUS based on the percentage of what the insurance/pbm saves from denial of coverage of a specific product or service. These physicians are paid their BONUS weekly. The […]
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Posted on March 23, 2024 by Pharmaciststeve
How Reporters Caught Payers Using Algorithms https://www.daily-remedy.com/how-reporters-caught-payers-using-algorithms/ In a call with a long-time source, what stood out most to STAT reporters Bob Herman and Casey Ross was just how viscerally frustrated and angry the source was about an algorithm used by insurance companies to decide how long patients should stay in a nursing home or […]
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Posted on March 23, 2024 by Norman Clement
FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES MARCH 22, 2024: “THE D.E.A. NEEDS TO STAY OUT OF MEDICINE” BY DR. SHRAVANI DURBHAKULA, MD, A PAIN MEDICINE PHYSICIAN FROM NASHVILLE & LYRICS FROM BIGGY SMALLS-NEW YORK IDENTIFYING D.E.A. -CORRUPTION
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Posted on March 22, 2024 by Pharmaciststeve
Our Congress passed a 1000+ page continued resolution to continue the funding of our government through the end of our fiscal year (09/30/2024). With 1.2 Trillion dollar patch to our federal spending, members of Congress had < 24 hrs to those 1,000+ pages BEFORE THEY HAD TO VOTE ON THIS BILL. Congress is required by […]
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Posted on March 22, 2024 by Pharmaciststeve
Medicare Advantage Is Under Fire. What It Means for Your Health—and Wallet. https://www.barrons.com/articles/medicare-advantage-medigap-choice-healthcare-retirement-3bb736e4 Insurers may cut back on benefits as their profits get squeezed. Why a Medicare/Medigap plan could be a better deal for consumers. Marcia Mantell won’t be eligible for Medicare for a few years yet. But she’s sure of one thing: Pitchmen like […]
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Posted on March 21, 2024 by Norman Clement
JAIL!!! FOR DR. TIM E. KING, MD, DOJ-DEA’S DR. JOSEPH MENGELE, MD, THEIR TW0 CLONES OF INHUMANITY AND EUGENICS; JAIL !!! OVERSIGHT!!!! FOR THE KING RAT!!! JAIL!!!
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Posted on March 12, 2024 by Pharmaciststeve
In America, covered medications on the list of covered drugs and drug prices are so deceptive that they we are losing so many beajtiful people. Another life is lost for the profits of a billion dollar industry. It’ll only get worse as too many remain silent.
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Posted on March 12, 2024 by Pharmaciststeve
A recent study aiming to find factors that increase risk of opioid overdose in chronic pain patients instead found that overdose is vanishingly rare, despite the researcher’s best efforts to obscure the truth. This recent Systemic Review and meta-analysis of almost 24 million patients set out to find what risk factors lead to opioid […]
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