Medicare-C (Advantage): a game of delay, deny and not pay?

Posted on December 17, 2023 by Pharmaciststeve

This is like what happened to pharmacy around 1990. When the PBM’s passed the 50% of the mark of controlling/paying for all prescriptions. First, they started by reducing the “dispensing fee” that they paid pharmacies. Then they started making contracts with some pharmacy chains, and the pharmacy became the exclusive pharmacy for being able to […]

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“WE MUST NOT BE INTIMIDATED OR PUSHED AROUND ANYMORE BY THE SOCIO-PATHIC BEHAVIORS OF DEA DIRECTOR ANN MILLIGRAM,” !!! SHE MUST RESIGN, STEP DOWN!!! FOR THE GOOD OF AMERICAN HEALTHCARE !!!

Posted on December 17, 2023 by Norman Clement

  “THE UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES OF MILITANT PROSECUTORIAL IGNORANCE OF PAIN HEALTHCARE”…SHAKEDOWN OF MEDICAL PROVIDERS LED BY DEA CHIEF ANN MILGRAM’S UNSPEAKABLE HISTORY OF CORRUPTION, FRAUD, AND DECEIT. SHE MUST RESIGN, STEP DOWN  

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When will our judicial system stop trying to protect us from ourselves?

Posted on December 16, 2023 by Pharmaciststeve

While this article starts talking about abortion.  All of us have seen the impact of politicians/bureaucrats exercising their opinions or the opinions of others who have lobbied these bureaucrats/politicians who convinced them what they were being told were the correct FACTS, which should be used to create some legislation. It also demonstrates how attorneys are […]

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Experts, Lawmakers Explore Downside of Drug-Price Negotiation

Posted on December 14, 2023 by Pharmaciststeve

Experts, Lawmakers Explore Downside of Drug-Price Negotiation https://www.medpagetoday.com/publichealthpolicy/medicare/107855 Stifled innovation, reduced access suggested as future challenges Potential unintended consequences of Medicare’s drug-price negotiation program were examined during a panel discussion hosted by The Hill and sponsored by the Alliance for Aging Research, an industry-funded nonprofit. Wednesday’s panelists raised concerns that drug-price negotiation under the Inflation […]

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Georgia Medical Cannabis Officials Weigh Response To DEA Threat Against Pharmacies, Including Possible Lawsuit

Posted on December 14, 2023 by Pharmaciststeve

I find it very interesting when one bureaucracy is going to sue another bureaucracy.  Especially when one bureaucracy’s action interferes with the ability to generate some revenue by another bureaucracy. Could this be a “backhanded”  process of the DEA’s wish to yank pharmacy’s DEA licenses so that there are few pharmacies in the state that […]

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We are doing good: Opioid Rxs down 26% – OD’s UNCHANGED – cut more Opioid Rxs

Posted on December 13, 2023 by Pharmaciststeve

Where is the logic/common sense is these statements? Since 2017, there has been a 26% reduction in daily opioid prescriptions 541 drug overdose deaths in Utah in 2022, opioid-involved fatal drug overdoses have remained relatively stable in recent years. 74% involved an opioid. I wonder what drugs were involved in the 26% of fatal drug […]

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US Attorney Admits that He was Directed to Target Doctors Who had NO criminal intent

Posted on December 12, 2023 by Pharmaciststeve

  I have heard from a number of attorneys that when a federal prosecutor takes someone to federal court, 90%-95% of the time they will be found guilty. After you watch this 17 minute video of a Federal Prosecutor, you will easily understand how that high conviction rate can be attained. What I suspect, that […]

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Bombshell Revelation from Government

Posted on December 11, 2023 by Pharmaciststeve

Bombshell Revelation from Government https://doctorsofcourage.org/bombshell-revelation-from-government/ Government Documents Expose Unconstitutional Arrests of Physicians in Massive Operations In a shocking turn of events, the U.S. Government, in response to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) litigation in the case of Neil Anand et al. v. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (Civil Action No. 21-1635), revealed a […]

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Don’t they know who they work for?

Posted on December 10, 2023 by Pharmaciststeve

I saw someone make this statement on the web. Don’t they know who they work for? The “they” ,that they are talking  about is POLITICIANS. Particularly those in Congress.  https://www.bbc.com/news/av/election-us-2020-54696386  According to this article in 2020 Federal Presidential and Congressional candidates spend 14 BILLION – TWICE AS MUCH as was spent on the 2016 election. […]

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Looking back.. revisiting a post that I first started in Nov 16, 2014

Posted on December 10, 2023 by Pharmaciststeve

              This post originally appeared on my blog Nov 16,2014 and last updated Feb 4,2016. https://www.pharmaciststeve.com/genocide-in-america/ This is before the CDC 2016 opioid dosing guidelines were published and about 2-3 yrs after the opioid Rxs dispensed had peaked.  Some states have passed law in recent years, that is suppose […]

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