OK insurance commissioner Files Action Against CVS/Caremark violating the Patient’s Right to Pharmacy Choice Act

Posted on April 4, 2023 by Pharmaciststeve

Mulready Files Action Against CVS/Caremark https://www.oid.ok.gov/release_040323/ OKLAHOMA CITY – Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner Glen Mulready announced today the filing of an administrative action against CVS/Caremark that outlines alleged violations of the Patient’s Right to Pharmacy Choice Act. The filing targets the practice of “steering patients” to CVS pharmacies and prescription mail-order services and seeks to censure, suspend, place […]

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Sometimes the reality of what is going on is hard to believe/swallow – healthcare is nothing more or less than a FOR PROFIT BUSINESS

Posted on April 4, 2023 by Pharmaciststeve

Must watch & please give a retweet! The trans 'Hero' in Matt Walsh's documentary 'What is a woman' silences an entire room of reporters in a live press conference about 'medically transitioning children!"@AlissaWalsh21 @ladykennington @againstgrmrs @OfficialAbelG @catcattinson… pic.twitter.com/qnGUaqGS18 — Scott Newgent-Trans Regretters (@NotScottNewgent) March 11, 2023  

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98% of US hospital websites share patient data with third-parties – more corps ignoring HIPAA laws ?

Posted on April 4, 2023 by Pharmaciststeve

98% of US hospital websites share patient data with third-parties https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/healthcare-information-technology/98-of-us-hospital-websites-share-patient-data-with-third-parties.html Almost all U.S. hospital websites are sending patient data to third-party companies such as Alphabet, Meta and Adobe, SC Media reported April 3.  The report cited an April 3 study published in Health Affairs in which researchers analyzed 6,162 U.S. hospital and health system websites, including 3,747 identified […]

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Xanax and Adderall Access Is Being Blocked by Secret Drug Limits

Posted on April 4, 2023 by Pharmaciststeve

Now I understand how the DEA is able to state with a “straight face” that they don’t control/ration controlled meds and interfere with pt’s access in getting them.  I have read a couple of comments about the Walgreen, CVS, Walmart lawsuit by 50 state AG’s , native American groups and others that those three chain […]

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NSAID Use Remains Complex

Posted on April 1, 2023 by Pharmaciststeve

NSAID Use Remains Complex Review leads to recommendations and warnings on the use of NSAIDs for pain. https://www.practicalpainmanagement.com/news/nsaid-use-remains-complex NSAIDs: Quick History Aspirin, the first nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug or NSAID, was developed in 1897. It was not until the 1950s that non-aspirin NSAIDs became available and forever changed the treatment of pain. As a class of […]

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There was no sound evidence of Acetaminophen’s ability to treat most all painful condition

Posted on April 1, 2023 by Pharmaciststeve

Bureaucrats are telling your doctor how to treat pain. And patients suffer needlessly https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2023/02/16/fear-opioids-causing-patients-needlessly-suffer-severe-pain/11254143002/ Thanks to pressure from lawmakers, government agencies and policymakers who inserted themselves into the patient-doctor relationship, patients became the victims of the never-ending war on drugs. A decade ago, most people thought of Tylenol (acetaminophen) as a medicine for fever, malaise and minor aches and […]

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Every day should be Mom and Pop Business Owner’s Day

Posted on March 31, 2023 by Pharmaciststeve

Every day should be Mom and Pop Business Owner’s Day Dear Colleague, The term “mom and pop” business had always bothered me. I thought it sounded a bit condescending and dismissive when I would hear representatives from big businesses talk about it, almost like they were giving small business owners a little pat on the […]

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These Illegal Drugs Are Important Medicines | The War on Drugs

Posted on March 31, 2023 by Pharmaciststeve

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this is the result of our FDA lacking the cojones and chutzpah to make these dangerous procedure ILLEGAL

Posted on March 30, 2023 by Pharmaciststeve

I have read where 5% of pts that get ESI ( Epidural Spinal Injections) will end up with arachnoiditis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arachnoiditis.. it is very painful – irreversible disease – These type of ESI are ILLEGAL in just a few countries, but our FDA and Pfizer that makes the most used med in these injections – DO […]

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If you can no longer get the ADD/ADHD meds you were prescribed before the pandemic

Posted on March 30, 2023 by Pharmaciststeve

After the DEA loosen what could be done via tele-video office visits….below are hyperlinks of two of the major players – there were also many more – in tele-video office for diagnosing and prescribing controlled substances – especially ADD/ADHD meds without the pt being seeing for an in person exam – as required by the […]

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