| 2/28/14 - 4 Puerto Ricans face health care fraud charges [Saudi Press Agency (Saudi Arabia)] |
U.S. Attorney Rosa Emilia Rodriguez says the suspects are accused of submitting at least 554 false claims to Medicare totaling more than $300,000. She said Thursday that they obtained the majority of the money back through reimbursements in a scheme that began in January 2010 and lasted nearly two years. The suspects face a total of 14 charges. ! SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, Rabi'II 27, 1435, Feb 27, 2014, SPA Four people including the owners of two pharmacies have been arrested on federal health care fraud charges in Puerto Rico, AP reported. U.S. Attorney Rosa Emilia Rodriguez says the suspects are accused of submitting at least 554 false claims to Medicare totaling more than $300,000. She said Thursday that they obtained the majority of the money back through reimbursements in a scheme that began in January 2010 and lasted nearly two years. The suspects face a total of 14 charges. SPA 21:48 LOCAL TIME 18:48 GMT quoted here |
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Owners of Two Pharmacies in Puerto Rico face federal charges
Killing Pain: Script by Script
Pain Management
Published: Feb 27, 2014 | Updated: Feb 28, 2014
By Kristina Fiore, Staff Writer, MedPage Today; and John Fauber, Reporter, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel/MedPage Today
Primary care doctors wrote about 53 million benzodiazepine prescriptions in 2013, roughly four times the number written by psychiatrists, a group that penned 13 million benzo scripts.
Nurse practitioners and physician assistants were close behind with 11 million prescriptions for the drugs, according to data obtained by MedPage Today and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
In 2013, non-doctors wrote 30 million opioid prescriptions, compared with 92 million written by primary care doctors that year, according to data provided by IMS Health, a drug market research firm.
In 2010, the most recent year for which data were available, 30% of the 16,651 people who died of an opioid overdose also had taken a benzodiazepine, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Nurse practitioners and physician assistants were close behind with 11 million prescriptions for the drugs, according to data obtained by MedPage Today and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
In 2013, non-doctors wrote 30 million opioid prescriptions, compared with 92 million written by primary care doctors that year, according to data provided by IMS Health, a drug market research firm.
In 2010, the most recent year for which data were available, 30% of the 16,651 people who died of an opioid overdose also had taken a benzodiazepine, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
continue to read here
NY Equine Safety Committee concerned about ''stacking'' of legal medications
2/28/2014
The simultaneous use of multiple therapeutic medications to treat the same ailment - a method referred to as stacking - has caused some concern among members of the New York racing community. The issue was brought up Thursday during a phone-in only meeting of the New York Racing Association’s read more
Webinar Replay - Pharmacy Compounding:
An Update from The Joint Commission, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP)
February 28, 2014
Listen to the replay and view the speaker slide decks from the February 27, 2014 Webinar: Pharmacy Compounding: An Update from The Joint Commission, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP).
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