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If you are choosing or forced to use a chain pharmacy where the Pharmacy department/staff looks like chaos is SOP, or your prescriptions never seems to be ready. You can complain to the state’s pharmacy board, but most state pharmacy boards are stacked with non practicing corporate Pharmacists. The primary function of the pharmacy board […]
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Some of what is said in this article reminds me of when Medicare implemented DRG (Diagnostic Related Groups) in the early 80’s. The hospital was paid a specific $$ when a pt was admitted to the hospital, based on the diagnose(s) that the pt was dealing with. If the hospital spent less than allotted for […]
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How Genetic Testing Could Prevent Dangerous Drug Reactions and Reduce Healthcare Costs https://www.acsh.org/news/2025/06/24/how-genetic-testing-could-prevent-dangerous-drug-reactions-and-reduce-healthcare Tailoring medicines to an individual’s genetic profile is now possible. One critical aspect is genetic testing that reduces side effects, particularly for patients on psychiatric and cardiovascular drugs. For millions of Americans, taking medication is a routine and necessary part of maintaining […]
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The IMPORTANT PART starts abt 3:00 minutes What does abortion have to do with pain management. This FL Rep almost died from a Ectopic pregnancy that practitioners in a ED was not wanting to terminate this woman’s ectopic pregnancy. The member of Congress was facing the fears of a practitioners of losing their licenses, because […]
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How Insurance/PBM industry use PAs to pad their bottom line The above article that I made a blog post about a couple of days ago, explains how FOR PROFIT insurance/PBM companies can make extra profits on your prescriptions. I recently had our Past D provider HUMANA, decided that a Rx that I had filled in […]
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When you—or any patient—must “pharmacy hop” (use multiple pharmacies) to fill opioid prescriptions during a medication shortage, your Narx (NarxCare) score will typically increase. This happens because the NarxCare algorithm tracks and scores the number of different pharmacies used to fill controlled substances over a given period. Using more pharmacies is interpreted as a risk […]
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Where the insurance/pbm industry uses PAs to pad their bottom line – CLICK HERE I didn’t have the time to convert each page to a *.jpg so that I could display them directly in a blog post, so they are all available in *,pdf format on the hyperlink above
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We are quickly approaching a precipice like many other chronic pain pts. A few months ago, our PCP of almost 30 yrs told us that he is retiring the end of 2026. We have already interviewed a couple of practices only to get “I’m not comfortable prescribing that much opioids – and that was on […]
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Rite Aid is closing its last bankruptcy with selling off their last 1,000 stores. A few years back they had abt 5,000 stores. Walgreens it is reported that they are selling the entire chain off to some investment firm. 10-15 yrs ago Walgreens was worth 100 billion, but this deal is reported to be for […]
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