May 15, 2012 By:David Stanley, RPh
How much sense does it make to put employees of major drug chains on state Boards of Pharmacy? Depends on whose chickens that fox is guarding.
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May 15, 2012 By:Drug Topics readers
Readers speak out about what got retail pharmacy where it is today; why the term "doctor" is like the curl in a pig's tail; and where the MD should put that vial of ropivacaine.
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 | May 15, 2012 By:Thomas E. Menighan, BS Pharm, MBA, ScD, FAPhA
As pharmacists and others wait to learn ACA's fate in the U.S. Supreme Court, the issue of provider status under the Social Security Act continues to worry those seeking to expand into MTM and other clinical services.
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May 15, 2012 By:Jim Plagakis, RPh
Pharmacists save the medical system millions of dollars every single day by keeping people away from the ER. They don't say thank you. And they don't even know that we're front-line money-savers.
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May 15, 2012 By:Ned Milenkovich, PharmD, JD
Four pharmacies have sued HHS and CMS to halt what they call a violation of federal Medicare Part D statute.
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May 10, 2012
Letters address suggestions for new certifying boards, the role of the patient in improving healthcare costs, the primary care shortage, and a recent healthcare study by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.
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May 10, 2012 By:Michael McBride
Most of the practices participating in the study indicated in the first survey that they are embarking on EHR implementation with only the most basic understanding of technology.
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May 10, 2012 By:William G. Porter, MD
One doctor recounts a special patient suffering from Alzheimer's who helped him realize how past events, especially John F. Kennedy's assassination, can continue to resonate decades later.
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