Friday, May 2, 2014
High Importance: Colorado State Board of Veterinary Medicine, State Board of Pharmacy and DEA collaborate on document providing guidance to veterinarians on administering, distrubuting, dispensing and prescribing prescription drugs
The Importance of Understanding What is Required of You When Administering, Distributing, Dispensing, or Prescribing Prescription Drugs
The State Board of Veterinary Medicine (Board) has reviewed several cases and fielded multiple questions surrounding the subject of prescriptions—ranging from acts requiring registration
as a wholesaler with the State Board of Pharmacy to the responsibilities of a licensed veterinarian when prescribing medication for a patient. After engaging in numerous discussions in the area of prescription drugs being administered, distributed, dispensed, or prescribed by licensed veterinarians, it is clear to the Board that there is potentially widespread misunderstanding and miscommunication of the legal requirements governing licensees when engaged in such acts.
as a wholesaler with the State Board of Pharmacy to the responsibilities of a licensed veterinarian when prescribing medication for a patient. After engaging in numerous discussions in the area of prescription drugs being administered, distributed, dispensed, or prescribed by licensed veterinarians, it is clear to the Board that there is potentially widespread misunderstanding and miscommunication of the legal requirements governing licensees when engaged in such acts.
Provided by DORA, this document, which was written in collaboration with the State Board of Pharmacy as well as the Drug Enforcement Administration, covers prescription requirements for licensed veterinarians in the state of Colorado in great detail and attempts to provide guidance and clarity in better understanding your roles and responsibilities. The document is posted here (click link above) in its entirety and also on the main page of the State Board of Veterinary Medicine website atwww.dora.state.co.us/veterinarians/. Please take the time to download the complete piece. It is imperative that each licensee understand the current requirements, keep informed and abreast of upcoming changes, and whenever possible participate in the process for further clarifying requirements into Board Rules and Policies.
the state of Colorado in great detail and attempts to provide guidance and clarity in better understanding your roles and responsibilities. The document is posted here (click link above) in its entirety and also on the main page of the State Board of Veterinary Medicine website atwww.dora.state.co.us/veterinarians/. Please take the time to download the complete piece. It is imperative that each licensee understand the current requirements, keep informed and abreast of upcoming changes, and whenever possible participate in the process for further clarifying requirements into Board Rules and Policies.
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CMS Rebuffs OIG's Call To Add Pharmacy Names To Compounded Drug Claims
CMS rebuffed the HHS Office of Inspector General's suggestion that Medicare Part B claims for compounded drugs identify the firm producing the product, telling the OIG that CMS can stop payments for drugs not produced under FDA requirements but lacks methods to track or identify compounded drug claims.
claims for compounded drugs identify the firm producing the product, telling the OIG that CMS can stop payments for drugs not produced under FDA requirements but lacks methods to track or identify compounded drug claims.
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OIG recommends CMS track Part B claims for compounded drugs (AHA - American Hospital Association)
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services should establish a method to identify Medicare Part B claims for compounded drugs, the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General said in report this week. OIG surveyed CMS staff and Part B Medicare Administrative Contractors to assess their oversight of Medicare claims for compounded drugs, citing public health and safety concerns following a 2012 outbreak of fungal meningitis linked to contaminated injectable compounded drugs. CMS concurred with OIG recommendations that the agency establish a...more »
claims for compounded drugs, the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General said in report this week. OIG surveyed CMS staff and Part B Medicare Administrative Contractors to assess their oversight of Medicare claims for compounded drugs, citing public health and safety concerns following a 2012 outbreak of fungal meningitis linked to contaminated injectable compounded drugs. CMS concurred with OIG recommendations that the agency establish a...more »Thursday, May 1, 2014
Three-Drug Protocol Persists for Lethal Injections, Despite Ease of Using One
By DENISE GRADYMAY 1, 2014
Terminally ill people who want to die can take drugs to end their lives peacefully. Ailing pets are put down humanely every day. Clearly, the technology exists to bring about a quick and painless death.
Why, then, do executions by lethal injection sometimes become troubling spectacles? The death in Oklahoma on Tuesday of Clayton D. Lockett, amid struggling and apparent pain, was not the country’s first bungled execution.
A number of factors have conspired to produce painful scenes in the death chamber, experts say: an ill-conceived drug formulation clung to by many states; the lack of medical expertise among people planning and carrying out executions; and, more recently, drug shortages that have pushed prison officials to improvise lethal cocktails and buy drugs from loosely regulated compounding pharmacies
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VERY INTERESTING READ--DETAILS DRUGS USED: HORSE RACING IN AMERICA: A SPECTACLE OF LIARS, DOPERS AND CHEATERS – PART 2 MAY 1, 2014 JANE ALLIN
The Cheaters
STEVE ASMUSSEN
Where better to start than the new poster boy of the Thoroughbred racing world – the unscrupulous Hall-of-Famer Steve Asmussen – Public Enemy number one according to Andrew Beyer.
“He has shamed thoroughbred racing so badly that the chairman of the Jockey Club, Ogden Mills “Dinny” Phipps, declared that there is “a dark cloud hovering over our sport” and that Asmussen ought to stay away from the Kentucky Derby and the Kentucky Oaks.” [1]
While the indiscriminate use of therapeutics and performance-enhancing drugs in the horse racing industry is not really news, the undercover recordings made by a PETA investigator at Asmussen’s barn are. For decades these activities have taken place, clandestinely if you will, hidden from public scrutiny by the code of silence.
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