CVS-Aetna merger set to close this week

Journal Inquirer-21 hours ago

Supporters of that trend have said greater coordination between insurers and pharmacy companies will streamline operations and lead to better, less expensive ...

CVS To Close $69 Billion Aetna Acquisition Deal That Could Change ...
The Daily Caller-18 hours ago

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Winners, losers amid CMS' proposed prescription drug policy changes

Becker's Hospital Review-21 hours ago

Pharmacy benefit managers. The rule would also favor PBMs because they will get "incremental negotiating leverage." Before, PBMs had no power to negotiate

PSA gets share of $23 million government funding

Pharmacy News-7 hours ago

Welcoming the funding, PSA president Dr Shane Jackson said the association believed pharmacists' expertise could be better used to meet the health care .

Boots worker sues pharmacy giant for £10k after getting in trouble for ...

The Scottish Sun-2 hours ago

A FORMER Boots employee has successfully sued the pharmacy for £10,000 after being disciplined for joking that half of Nairn was on antidepressants. Annette .

Hospitals regularly prescribe opioids on discharge 'just in case'

Pharmacy News-13 hours ago

An analysis of hospital pharmacy practices surrounding opioids has also revealed less than 10% of hospitals provide GPs with a pain management plan or 

US FDA finds traces of heavy metals in kratom products

MD Linx-7 minutes ago

Reuters Health News | November 28, 2018. The US Food and Drug Administration said on Tuesday it had found high levels of heavy metals such as lead and 

Progressive Care Signs Letter of Intent to Purchase Florida Based ...

Associated Press (press release)-47 minutes ago

On November 27, 2018, Progressive Care executed a letter of intent to purchase a Florida based pharmacy with locations in Davie and Orlando, Florida.

Edmund Pezalla: Pharmacy benefit managers keeping drug costs down

Tribune-Review-14 hours ago

Recently, the Pennsylvania auditor general and Pennsylvania lawmakers have taken a deeper dive into how pharmacy benefit managers, or PBMs, operate in 

Pre-printed prescription forms used: Man pleads guilty to defrauding U.S. of $550,000 in Little Rock-based scheme

Man pleads guilty to defrauding U.S. of $550,000 in Little Rock-based scheme: A Nashville, Tenn., man on Monday became the fifth person to plead guilty in a Little Rock-based multimillion-dollar scheme to defraud Tricare, the U.S. military's health insurer.

The San Diego Union-Tribune

Man pleads guilty to defrauding US of $550000 in Little Rock-based ...

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (blog)-5 hours ago

... conspired to generate Tricare-covered prescriptions for compounded drugs for his and his co-conspirators' financial benefit. Three more people pleaded guilty ...

Nurse practitioner pleads guilty in $65 million prescription fraud ...
The San Diego Union-Tribune-8 hours ago

Nurse practitioner pleads guilty in $65M healthcare fraud scheme
fox5sandiego.com-8 hours ago

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