CVS HEALTH/Caremark: Have your Rxs filled where we tell you, or YOU PAY ENTIRE COST.

Posted on July 2, 2022 by Pharmaciststeve

There is more and more issues coming to light of how the PBM industry is extracting a “boat load’ of excessive profits from just about any entity/person within our medication distribution system from Medicare/Medicaid/Insurance, pharma, wholesaler, pt.  It is possible that there could be HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS INVOLVED in overcharging by the PBM […]

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Alleged drug traffickers released from California jail days after caught with 150K illegal fentanyl pills

Posted on July 2, 2022 by Pharmaciststeve

These two “bad boys” were caught in the possession of illegal Fentanyl tablets and charged with possession, transportation and selling of illegal drugs.  Apparently in CALF, those who are arrested are put thru some “risk assessment” by the county probation dept to evaluate if those arrested, if released on their own recognizance or kept in jail.  […]

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PBM: Unmask the Villains of Healthcare’s High Costs

Posted on July 1, 2022 by Pharmaciststeve

PBM: Unmask the Villains of Healthcare’s High Costs https://practicingphysician.org/pbm-unmask-the-villains-of-healthcares-high-costs/ Would you like to lower healthcare costs, restore quality and improve choice? Yes? Then you MUST learn about Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs). If you look on the Fortune 500 top 12 companies, you will find three companies who own PBM. Dig deeper, and you’ll discover these […]

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Medicare plans to stop posting some hospital safety data

Posted on July 1, 2022 by Pharmaciststeve

Medicare plans to stop posting some hospital safety data https://www.statnews.com/2022/07/01/medicare-wants-to-stop-publishing-some-hospital-safety-data-next-year/ After Ann MacDonald’s 82-year-old mother, Betty (above left), died in a Rhode Island hospital after developing sepsis after surgery, she has wondered about hospital safety. She turns to Care Compare, a federal government website that compiles hospital quality data in a user-friendly format, to look […]

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How bureaucrats respond when a family member is abusing some substance and/or OD’s ?

Posted on June 30, 2022 by Pharmaciststeve

Just have someone (bureaucrat) with some degree of political power that has a family member that ends up abusing some potentially addictive substance and they will exercise any and all power/influence they can muster up to solve this problem – never mind that the particular family member has some undiagnosed/untreated mental health issues… they really […]

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PBM Express Scripts: auto refill mail order Rxs every 60 days for a 90 days supply each pt got 73% more meds in 12 months than needed.

Posted on June 30, 2022 by Pharmaciststeve

PBM faces suit over alleged ‘refill pill mill’ scheme https://ncpa.org/newsroom/qam/2022/06/29/pbm-faces-suit-over-alleged-refill-pill-mill-scheme Express Scripts is facing a lawsuit under the False Claims Act on charges that it delivered pointless prescribed drugs to military personnel, bilking the federal authorities and distributors out of billions of dollars. A whistleblower claims the company’s software was allegedly set up to refill […]

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SCOTUS starting to tell various federal enforcement agencies to “stay in their lane” and stop creating new regulations without statutory authority

Posted on June 30, 2022 by Pharmaciststeve

Not everyone can see the “few degrees of separation” for different things that our Federal government does and how it will/could affect what other parts of the Federal government can be able to do and/or could be challenged in our courts that they can no longer go forward with “business as usual”. Recent decisions by […]

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Is it reasonable to have a person who is running to represent people in Congress to share their position on a issue ?

Posted on June 30, 2022 by Pharmaciststeve

erin@erinhouchin.com Ms Houchin, Could you please share your position on the war on drugs and all the illegal fentanyl coming across our SW border from China & Mexico cartels and 70K-75K/yr dying from illegal opiate poisoning ? There is a estimated 100+ million people dealing with chronic pain and that could suggests that in Indiana […]

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CVS, Walmart and Rite Aid Limit Purchases of Plan B Pills After Surge in Demand

Posted on June 28, 2022 by Pharmaciststeve

As a Pharmacist, I am concerned that  women who use this methodology very frequently – more than once-twice a month. While it sounds rather simplistic of preventing ovulation and/or preventing a fertilized egg ( Zygote ) from attaching to the uterus. These meds, disrupts a woman natural hormonal cycles.  The same as a higher and […]

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No matter what the politicians say… the optics and numbers about the opiate epidemic remain the same.

Posted on June 28, 2022 by Pharmaciststeve

Lawmakers Pummel Biden’s Drug Policy Czar at House Hearing — GOP and Democratic members raise issues with border control, medication-assisted treatment https://www.medpagetoday.com/psychiatry/opioids/99473 WASHINGTON — Rahul Gupta, MD, MPH, director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, got hit from all sides Monday at a House Committee on Oversight and Reform hearing on […]

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