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Look alive as hospitals close and cut services, lawmakers urge HHS https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/hospital-management-administration/look-alive-as-hospitals-close-and-cut-services-lawmakers-urge-hhs.html Hospital closures, service reductions, mergers and acquisitions are creating a bed shortage and impeding patients’ access to timely care, a group of Massachusetts lawmakers contend in a letter to HHS that requests information from the agency on its part in monitoring or interfering […]

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How to Help Prevent Flu and RSV? You Might Not like the Answer https://www.doximity.com/articles/4dae41d9-5fb8-445f-81b7-1867349286b7 As respiratory viruses surge across the country, a number of public-health officials and doctors are encouraging masking to protect against flu and RSV, in addition to Covid-19. Whether masks are enough—and whether people are willing to wear them after the country […]

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Is Congress trying to tell everyone that they had better start increasing their retirement contributions? The last of the Baby Boomers will be entitled to full SS benefits in 2031, when they turn 67 y/o. It is estimated that SS will “run out of money” is in 2035..https://money.com/social-security-run-out-date/.  SS will not necessarily “go broke” SS […]

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The DEA claims that they don’t practice medicine, but… they established what they believe is a standard of care and best practices for practitioners to follow and if anyone exceeds those dosing mgs/limits must be prescribing controlled substances ILLEGALLY.  Of course, the SCOTUS in June 2022, with a 9-0 vote on the Ruan/Kahn hearing that […]

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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Makes a Major Move to Improve Pain Care https://uspainfoundation.org/news/the-centers-for-medicare-and-medicaid-services-cms-makes-a-major-move-to-improve-pain-care/ This past November, CMS announced that starting January 1, 2023, Medicare will pay physicians in all states and other practitioners with prescription authority such as Nurse Practitioners (NP’s) and Physician Assistants (PA’s) in some states, to perform comprehensive […]

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IN THE TRIAL OF LESLY POMPY MD: DEFENSE REST: CLOSING AND ON TO THE JURY “TESTIMONY FROM PATIENTS POMPY IS A GOOD DOCTOR” http://https://youarewithinthenorms.com/2022/12/20/in-the-trial-of-lesly-pompy-md-defense-rest-closing-and-on-to-the-jury-testimony-from-patients-pompy-is-a-good-doctor/ You’re Within The NormsDecember 20, 2022Uncategorized Post navigation Previous   REPORTED BY youarewithinthenorms.com NORMAN J CLEMENT RPH., DDS, NORMAN L. CLEMENT PHARM-TECH, MALACHI F. MACKANDAL PHARMD, IN THE SPIRIT OF WALTER R. CLEMENT […]

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Healthcare companies’ default risk steadily rising, with most owned by private equity: Moody’s https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/finance/healthcare-companies-default-risk-steadily-rising-most-owned-private-equity-moodys Amid a weakening macroeconomic environment and ongoing pressure by private and public payers to reduce healthcare costs, a growing number of healthcare companies are faced with credit rating downgrades and potential defaults. The healthcare industry’s social risk is also rising, exemplified […]

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NSAID, TYLENOL, NEURONTIN AND THE FABRICATED SENSE OF PAIN RELIEF https://youarewithinthenorms.com/2022/12/19/nsaid-tylenol-neurontin-and-the-fabricated-sense-of-pain-relief/ REPORTED BY youarewithinthenorms.com NORMAN J CLEMENT RPH., DDS, NORMAN L. CLEMENT PHARM-TECH, MALACHI F. MACKANDAL PHARMD, BELINDA BROWN-PARKER, IN THE SPIRIT OF JOSEPH SOLVO ESQ., IN THE SPIRIT OF REV. C.T. VIVIAN, JELANI ZIMBABWE CLEMENT, BS., MBA., WILLIE GUINYARD BS., JOSEPH WEBSTER MD., MBA, BEVERLY C. PRINCE MD., FACS., LEROY BAYLOR,   […]

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A few months ago there was some confusion about some things that the DEA had published about what a Pharmacist may or may not add or change on a C-II prescription.  I got this from the KY BOP, but since all C-II are now sent electronically, the ability to add/alternate data on a C-II may […]

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What is the *Real* Shelf Life of Prescription Opioids? https://www.acsh.org/news/2022/11/25/what-real-shelf-life-prescription-opioids-16692 What’s the deal with the “discard after one year” label on pill bottles? Is it based on real science? Or, is the FDA just trying to get you to send in “outdated” medicines, especially prescription opioids? If you’re waiting for Drug Giveback Day have a […]

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