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FDA warns pharmacy benefit company for distributing unapproved foreign drugs https://www.raps.org/news-and-articles/news-articles/2023/3/fda-warns-pharmacy-benefit-company-for-distributin The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently warned pharmacy benefit firm ElectRx for substituting prescription drugs ordered by its customers with drugs sourced from foreign pharmacies that have not been approved by the agency.   The company, which contracts with public and private […]

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US sues Rite Aid for allegedly missing ‘red flags’ in unlawful prescriptions   Here is a quote from this article:  Associate attorney general Vanita Gupta said that the pharmacy chain’s prescribing practices had “opened the floodgates for millions of opioid pills and other controlled substances to flow illegally out of Rite Aid’s stores”.  Maybe this […]

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Opioid Settlement Hinders Patients’ Access to a Wide Array of Drugs An agreement between attorneys general and major drug distributors increased scrutiny on medications for A.D.H.D., addiction, anxiety and pain. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/13/us/drug-limits-adhd-depression.html Nearly a year after a sweeping opioid settlement imposed new requirements on the companies that provide medications to pharmacies, patients across the United States […]

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The FTC Fires Its First Shot – at www.goodrx.com – Under the HBNR https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx Last month, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) announced its first-ever enforcement action under the Health Breach Notification Rule (“HBNR” or “the Rule”). In a complaint filed in February, the agency alleged that GoodRx Holdings Inc., a prescription drug discount and telehealth […]

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Loretta Boesing has a little child that has had a transplant and was forced to use a PBM mail order pharmacy to get anti-rejection medication from her PBM mail order pharmacy.  These medication(s) have a very specific temperature storage requirement – in order to maintain their potency. After her child started rejecting his/her transplanted organ […]

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 https://doctorsofcourage.org/david-suetholz-md/ Dr. David Suetholz, MD, 74, is a family medicine doctor who practiced in Ft Mitchell, KY. Suetholz also served in the Kenton County Coroner’s Office for over 40 years, 30 of which he served as coroner. He retired from that position in June 2021 but continued his private practice. He has worked as a family physician […]

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Ankle Docs See Falling Medicare Payments https://www.medpagetoday.com/meetingcoverage/aaos/103471 Inflation-adjusted reimbursements for fusion, joint replacement slip LAS VEGAS — From 2000 to 2020, Medicare reimbursements for ankle arthroplasty have fallen more than 30% after adjusting for inflation, and payments for ankle arthrodesis declined nearly 7%, a researcher said here. Meanwhile, the volume of these procedures has more […]

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The article states that they had data from 1998 to 2019, but it is not mentioned any analysis of liver toxicity using the data after the 2016 CDC opioid dosing guidelines until the end of data that they had.  Is a 3-4 yr period not statistically significant enough for a valid comparison  or did the […]

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