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The illegal Fentanyl from China is killing more American EACH YEAR… than all the soldier killed in ALL THE YEARS of the Vietnam war, everyone killed at the attack on Pearl Harbor and all the people killed at 911  TOGETHER… Now that the SCOTUS has declared that DOJ/DEA is incorrectly/illegally charging many prescribers of prescribing […]

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The link below is to the 33 page 9-0 decision and the text in this blog post is a synopsis from someone else. I have said for years that a potential solution to the war on pts by the DOJ/DEA… would involve law firms and lawsuits.  It is not often that  SCOTUS comes out in […]

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  I love math issues… let’s look at this example .. Medicare pays for how many doses of 20 mg or 40 mg ? I checked on www.goodrx.com in my zip code lowest available price # 30 doses 20mg $0.25 each $ 7.42 & 40 mg $0.13 each $3.89 Cost Plus Drug Co. #30 @ […]

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Will CVS Health Be a Positive Disruptor to Primary Care? — Complex incentives pose reasons to approach this new model with caution https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/second-opinions/99374 While working at one of the nation’s largest safety-net hospitals, I experienced first-hand how difficult it can be for people to access medical care. For many providers, the story of the patient […]

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this is some items included in a Narxcare report… IF you notice Narxcare – someone – has CREATED a LME (Lorazepam ) Lorazepam Milligram Equivalents – just the TIP OF THE ICEBERG in this reporting system – there is a WHOLE LIBRARY of 3 color informational handouts the practitioner can print out. Also notice that […]

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We have been always been the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA… Our Constitution plainly states what is to be managed by the Federal gov and what is the responsibility of the states. We are not the 50 regional members of the North America Federalization Government. This has been a interesting month for the bureaucrats in Washington […]

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This past week, we had a LESS THAN FOUR YEARS OLD Whirlpool washer FAIL ON US..  We had purchased it from a local owned appliance store we have been patronizing for some 3+ decades. We used a repairman that they recommended – didn’t know at the time that this guy had worked for a local […]

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To protect people with addiction from discrimination, the Justice Dept. turns to a long-overlooked tool: the ADA https://www.statnews.com/2022/06/22/to-protect-people-with-addiction-from-discrimination-the-justice-dept-turns-to-a-long-overlooked-tool-the-ada/ It was at Massachusetts General Hospital that Bryan found the care he needed for his opioid use disorder. He had previously tried, without success, to just quit. But when the hospital’s renowned addiction medicine team prescribed him […]

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From a short websearch – MO Healthnet – seems to be the state of MO Medicaid program.  Will many of the practitioners in MO just pull out of the Medicaid program or will they end up just applying Medicaid prescribing rules to all their pts…  so that they will not accidentally exceed the dosing limit […]

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