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Pharmacy Management
Florida Law Will Let Patients Get All Their Drug Renewals At The Same Time
By Michelle Andrews
For People who take multiple medications to manage chronic conditions, traipsing back and forth from the pharmacy to pick up pills can make it harder to stick to
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Senate Health Bill Still Short On ‘Yays’ But Leaders Vow Vote Next Week
By Julie Rovner
July 13, 2017
Senate Republican leaders Thursday released their revised bill to “repeal and replace” the Affordable Care Act, but they acknowledged that furious days of negotiation have not
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Trump’s Surgeon General Pick Built Name Fighting HIV And Opioids In Indiana
By Emily Forman, Side Effects Public Media
July 7, 2017
Several weeks before President Donald Trump nominated Indiana’s state health commissioner Jerome Adams to be the next U.S. surgeon general, Adams toured
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New On The Streets: Drug For Nerve Pain Boosts High For Opioid Abusers
By Carmen Heredia Rodriguez
July 6, 2017
ATHENS, Ohio — On April 5, Ciera Smith sat in a car parked on the gravel driveway of the Rural Women’s Recovery Program here with
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Lots Of Boos In California For Senate Health Bill
By Anna Gorman and Kellen Browning and Ana B. Ibarra
June 23, 2017
California politicians, medical providers and consumer advocates served up harsh critiques of the newly unveiled Senate health care bill
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Justice Department Joins Lawsuit Alleging Massive Medicare Fraud By UnitedHealth
By Fred Schulte
March 28, 2017
The Justice Department has joined a California whistleblower’s lawsuit that accuses insurance giant UnitedHealth Group of fraud in its popular Medicare Advantage health plans.
Justice officials filed
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To Save On Drug Costs, Insurer Wants To Steer You To ‘Preferred’ Pharmacies
By Pauline Bartolone
March 9, 2017
One of California’s largest insurers has proposed a change in the benefits of commercial plans next year that would require consumers to pay more for drugs
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Five Ways The GOP Health Bill Would Reverse Course From The ACA
By Julie Rovner
After literally years of promises, House Republicans finally have a bill they say will “repeal and replace” the Affordable Care Act.
Some conservative Republicans have derided the new proposal
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State Fires Contractor After Problems Put California HIV Patients At Risk
By Anna Gorman March 2, 2017
California’s public health department Wednesday fired the contractor responsible for enrolling patients in a state-run AIDS program, saying its poor performance threatened enrollees’ access to
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