Montana seeks marketing injunction against OxyContin maker

The Spokesman-Review-20 hours ago

OxyContin pills are arranged Feb. 19, 2013, for a photo at a pharmacy in Montpelier, Vt. The state of Montana is seeking a preliminary injunction to prevent the maker of the powerful painkiller OxyContin from marketing opioids to Montana prescribers, seeking to put the force of a court order behind Purdue Pharma's recent ...

OxyContin maker stopped in its tracks
Pharmacy News-20 hours ago

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It will take everyone if we're going to have an impact on the opioid ...

Price Sun Advocate-20 hours ago

“I believe it,” Ferguson quipped. “I never wanted to go to his pharmacy.” The response garnered laughter from the crowd, but emphasizes an important point. Some doctors prescribe far more opioids than others. Some pharmacists just fill prescriptions because a doctor wrote it. That's just fueling the epidemic, Ferguson said.

Patients, doctors struggle with new law aimed at reducing overdoses

KLAS-TV-12 hours ago

A lot feel shame, feel like they're being treated like a criminal at the pharmacy," Dr. Laird said. Some patients complain the crackdown has led to pharmacy overreach with some skipping the full amount of pills or refusing to supply them at all. "They start wondering when I go today is it going to be the good pharmacist or the ..

Houston Pharmacy Owners Deny $23M Health Fraud

Houston Pharmacy Owners Deny $23M Health Fraud

Law360-17 hours ago

Law360 (February 21, 2018, 8:25 PM EST) -- The Houston owners of Piney Point Pharmacy pled not guilty Wednesday to federal charges of money ... of Labor for compound gels and creams that were given out through illegal, kickback-induced prescriptions via the Houston pharmacy the two owned and operated.... To view ...

Express Scripts Beats NY Pharmacy's Antitrust, Contract Suit

Law360-18 hours ago

Law360 (February 21, 2018, 7:51 PM EST) -- A Missouri federal judge on Wednesday dismissed a New York pharmacy's antitrust and breach of contract suit accusing Express Scripts Inc. of baiting it into a mail-order contract only to drop the deal months later, finding the relationship between the two was limited to ...

Hutchinson to Consider Arkansas Lawmaker's Pharmacy Proposal

U.S. News & World Report-2 hours ago

An Arkansas lawmaker says she'll drop her push to take up the issue of pharmacy reimbursement during the ongoing fiscal session after the governor assured that ... The proposal comes in response to cuts in reimbursement to pharmacies for generic drugs provided to many Arkansas Blue Cross and Blue Shield customers, ...

Arkansas Pharmacists, Legislators Call for Pharmacy Benefits ...

Pharmacy Times-20 hours ago

Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs) would be required to obtain a license from the state to do business in Arkansas, under proposed legislation announced Wednesday. The potential mandate is part of a law-making effort to provide oversight to prescription reimbursement practices that some pharmacists have said are ...

Legislator: Got governor's Rx vow
Arkansas Online-9 hours ago

PBM's discussed during meeting at Capitol
KAIT-14 hours ago

Arkansas governor seeks more PBM regulation: 4 things to know
Becker's Hospital Review-20 hours ago

Lawmakers, Pharmacists Meet with CVS over Regulation of ...
Highly Cited-KARK-17 hours ago

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Essential Read! Medical errors are to blame for more than 250000 deaths in the US

Medical errors are to blame for more than 250000 deaths in the US ...

CNBC-4 hours ago

... the day Emily was given her fatal dose, the hospital pharmacy was short-staffed, the pharmacy computer was not properly working, and there was a backlog of physician orders. Afterward Chris said he discovered that pharmacy technicians, rather than well-trained and educated pharmacists, are compounding nearly all of ...

Mercy Health and Bon Secours to merge

Mercy Health and Bon Secours Health System plan to merge to form a 43-hospital entity that serves seven states with $8 billion in net operating revenue, the organizations announced Wednesday.  READ MORE

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