Saturday, December 30, 2017

NC looks to curb prescription drug abuse through 'doctor shopping'

WRAL.com-20 hours ago
"Doctor shoppers connotes someone that tends to goes from prescriber to prescriber to obtain prescriptions often and usually under false pretenses," said Jay Campbell, executive director of the North Carolina Board of Pharmacy. He said pharmacistsoften fill prescriptions completely unaware that they are fraudulent.

Costly toys forfeited in $100 million pharmacy fraud case

Costly toys forfeited in $100 million pharmacy fraud case

Kaplan Herald-7 hours ago
According to the U.S. Department of Justice, the president and owner of a Florida pharmacy that was at the center of a massive compounding pharmacy fraud scheme pleaded guilty. Seven others previously admitted their part in the scheme. Private insurance companies, Medicare and TRICARE were victims of the fraud, ...

Friday, December 29, 2017

Simmons among firms chosen to represent Cook County in opioid ...

Madison County Record-21 hours ago
Nationally, the lawsuit cites a 2016 report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimating the “national impact of prescription opioid overdoses, abuse and dependence” at $78.5 billion, including “lost productivity” at $42 billion, “health insurance” at $26 billion, “criminal justice” at $7.6 billion and “substance ...

Drug prices rise as pharma profit soars

ModernHealthcare.com-21 hours ago
The amount of money people spend on prescription drugs has nearly doubled over the past three decades as pharmaceutical sales and profit margins have ballooned, according to ... Retail prescriptiondrug expenses accounted for about 12% of total U.S. healthcare spending in 2015, up from about 7% through the 1990s.

New state laws going into effect starting in 2018

KRNV My News 4-2 hours ago
ASSEMBLY BILL 474: AN ACT relating to drugs; requiring certain persons to make a report of a drug overdose or suspected drug overdose; revising provisions concerning the computerized program to track each prescription for a controlled substance; revising provisions governing the accessibility of health care records in ...