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10/13/2022

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/08/upshot/medicare-advantage-fraud-allegations.html

By next year, half of Medicare beneficiaries will have a private Medicare Advantage plan. Most large insurers in the program have been accused in court of fraud.

10/07/2022

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2022/10/07/1127017062/early-signs-a-new-u-s-covid-surge-could-be-on-its-way

Here we go again. The virus is starting to surge in many European countries and there are early signs a wave may be starting in the U.S. too.

09/26/2022

https://fortune.com/well/2022/09/24/new-covid-omicron-variants-subvariants-evade-monoclonal-antibodies-bebtelovimab-recombinants-convergent-evolution-sars-immune-evasion/

One up and coming variant renders society’s last universal COVID antibody drug powerless, experts say. Another variant isn’t far behind it.

09/23/2022

https://ncpa.org/newsroom/qam/2022/09/22/speak-your-tricare-patients

Please contact your federal legislators and urge them to sign on to a letter led by Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) and Rep. Buddy Carter (R-Ga.) that demands answers from the Department of Defense on the recent Tricare pharmacy contracts. Express Scripts slashed pharmacy reimbursements for 2023 making it....

09/20/2022

Influenza is always unpredictable. Infectious disease experts like to hedge their forecasts with a caution: When you've seen one flu season, you've seen one flu season.

09/20/2022

While many Americans are acting as if the pandemic is a thing of the past, the Biden administration has warned that the U.S. could see 100 million COVID-19 infections in the fall and winter.

08/18/2022

https://www.wsj.com/articles/cvs-walgreens-and-walmart-ordered-to-pay-650-million-to-ohio-counties-in-opioid-case-11660767960

A jury last year found the companies owning CVS, Walgreens and Walmart pharmacies were liable for contributing to the opioid epidemic in Lake and Trumbull counties.

07/26/2022

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/time-expose-secret-drug-scam-094700224.html?guccounter=2

A federal court recently exposed the rot at the heart of America’s healthcare system. The case, filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, partly revolved around the many low-income, and even middle-income, patients who receive “co-pay coupons” from drug manufacturers to he...

07/20/2022

https://www.truthrx.org/post/healthcare-policy-expert-ftc-could-put-insurers-drug-middlemen-on-a-diet

The Federal Trade Commission has an opportunity to impact healthcare for Americans. Newsweek Fat can sometimes cause healthcare issues, but not the extra 10 pounds — which is actually 30 — that some Americans want to lose. It's the fat in the U.S. healthcare system. You might immediately think o...

07/17/2022

https://bestlifeonline.com/ex-cvs-employees-warnings-news/

Thing you know everything about CVS? Former employees share insider warnings about what's really going on.

06/30/2022

https://ohiocapitaljournal.com/2022/06/28/former-cvs-exec-accuses-it-of-ripping-off-seniors-taxpayers/

The top leadership of CVS Health directed an illegal scheme to work across the corporation's sprawling subsidiaries to drive up drug prices in the Medicare program, says a whistleblower suit that was recently unsealed in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

06/30/2022

https://ncpa.org/newsroom/qam/2022/06/29/fda-proposes-new-requirements-nonprescription-drugs

The FDA has issued a proposed rule to establish requirements for a nonprescription drug product with an additional condition for nonprescription use (ACNU), which might include a questionnaire administered via a website, a mobile application, or a display screen at a pharmacy kiosk.

06/30/2022

https://ncpa.org/newsroom/qam/2022/06/29/pbm-faces-suit-over-alleged-refill-pill-mill-scheme

Express Scripts is facing a lawsuit under the False Claims Act on charges that it delivered pointless prescribed drugs to military personnel, bilking the federal authorities and distributors out of billions of dollars. A whistleblower claims the company’s software was allegedly set up to refill 90...

06/27/2022

https://bestlifeonline.com/news-cvs-laxative-recall/

The FDA has issued a recall of CVS Magnesium Citrate Saline Laxative Oral Solution Lemon Flavor after discovering a potential health risk.

06/25/2022

https://iowacapitaldispatch.com/2022/06/22/deep-inside-the-gun-bill-a-break-for-prescription-drug-middlemen/

Buried in the Senate's bipartisan gun bill is a provision shielding drug middlemen from restrictions on kickbacks and rebates.

06/24/2022

Finally Some good News all consumers!!!

The Federal Trade Commission announced that it will ramp up enforcement against any illegal bribes and rebate schemes that block patients’ access to competing lower-cost drugs.

06/23/2022

https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/23/health/juul-taken-off-market-fda/index.html

The US Food and Drug Administration ordered Juul products removed from the US market as the agency issued marketing denial orders for its va**ng devices and pods.

06/22/2022

This live discussion is going on right now, please click the link below to watch:

On Wednesday, June 22 at 1:00 p.m. ET, join the American Economic Liberties Project, the National Community Pharmacists Association, and Senator Sherrod Brow...