PHARMACIST STEVE

This appeared to really starting to happen with the Tobacco settlement in 1998… in which 46 state AG’s and some law firms suited the 4 major tobacco manufacturers and 4 states settled outside of the lawsuit and in the first 20 yrs there was abt 135 BILLION dollars shared with those states.. I tried to […]

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Bump in Non-Opioid Pain Prescriptions Following CDC’s 2016 Guidelines https://www.medpagetoday.com/painmanagement/painmanagement/99183 Non-opioid pain medication prescribing increased after the CDC published guidelines on opioids for chronic pain in 2016, according to a cohort study using insurance claims data. Among over 15 million individuals, logistic regression models showed that the odds of non-opioid pain prescriptions were higher following […]

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Chronic pain groups, wow!!! Just wow!! Many claim to be advocates and the upper management boasts about all their accomplishments when actually they do little to nothing to actually make a difference. I joined DPPR – Don’t Punish Pain Rally National &  state level after a parent passed away suddenly when their medication was discontinued […]

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Walgreens Sues Hospital Over New In-House Pharmacy https://www.medpagetoday.com/special-reports/exclusives/99119 Retail pharmacy giant says it will suffer “substantial, immediate, and irreparable harm Walgreens has filed a lawsuit against Hagerstown, Maryland-based Meritus Health after the community hospital and health system opened an independent pharmacy in the lobby of its flagship medical center. The retail pharmacy giant alleged that […]

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Doctor is “convicted”  ON ALLEGATIONS of over prescribing & NOT FOLLOWING GOOD MEDICAL PRACTICES.  From what I have heard about a person being taken to FEDERAL COURT that 90%-95% will be FOUND GUILTY… Apparently in our federal court system, the DOJ/DEA can take a doc to federal court and can get them convicted over JUST […]

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Beat cancer? Your Medicare Advantage plan might still be billing for it. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2022/06/05/medicare-advantage-records-fraud/ Firms mined patient records for outdated, irrelevant conditions to increase profits, Justice Department contends Kathy Ormsby’s work auditing medical case files uncovered an alleged scheme to defraud the federal government: The California health system that employed her was scouring health histories of […]

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FTC to investigate CVS Caremark, Humana, other pharmacy benefit managers https://www.foxbusiness.com/healthcare/ftc-investigation-cvs-caremark-humana-pharmacy-benefit-managers A new investigation by the Federal Trade Commission will take aim at the prescription drug middlemen industry and pharmacy benefit managers. Pharmacy benefit managers are hired to negotiate rebates and fees with drug manufacturers, create drug formularies and surrounding policies and reimburse pharmacies for […]

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It would seem in hindsight, that the war on drugs was mostly built on racism, bigotry and lies.  It has been claimed that the Controlled Substance Act bill was signed into law by a President (“tricky dick nixon) that was known to be a racist/bigot and he wanted to throw blacks and “hippies” into jail. […]

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Billion-Dollar Bounty for AARP https://www.medpagetoday.com/special-reports/exclusives/99125?xid=nl_mpt_investigative2022-06-08&eun=g578717d0r The American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) agreed to an exclusive promotional deal in September with Oak Street Health, which operates 100 primary care clinics in a dozen states, according to Kaiser Health News. The deal allows Oak Street Health to use AARP in its marketing for an undisclosed fee, […]

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