Tag: pharmacies
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Opinion pieces for and against pharmacy benefit manager reforms in the news
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News The Kentucky General Assembly has worked for years to pass laws aimed at reining in the practices of pharmacy benefit managers, saying they create...
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Pharmacies dispensing opioids thrive in Clay County, which leads Kentucky in doses of hydrocodone per person: 150 a year
Pharmacies dispensing opioids are thriving in an impoverished, coal-depressed county in Eastern Kentucky, Phil Galewitz reports for Kaiser Health News. In Clay County (Wikipedia map) the unemployment rate is 8.4 percent,...
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Pharmacy benefit managers secretly decide which prescription drugs are covered or not, critics call for more transparency
lexisnexis.com Every year, pharmacy benefit managers in the United States decide which prescription drugs are excluded from health insurance plans, and this list is determined by a secret board of...
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Drug prices keep rising, with no end in sight
By Trudy Lieberman Rural Health News Service Recently a tweet from Lauren Sausser, a fine health reporter I know in South Carolina, caught my eye. “Crazy drug prices became personal....
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Legislature’s many health bills include some with life-saving potential, better prevention, greater access and help for children
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News One paragraph in this story was incorrect and has been stricken. FRANKFORT, Ky. — Kentucky legislators have all but ended their regular session without...
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Hard-fought bill to protect independent pharmacies passes Senate committee; would regulate pharmacy benefit managers
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Update March 28: SB 117 passed the Senate March 14 with a 38-0 vote and passed the House March 25 with a 97-0 vote....
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Study finds legislative crackdown on pill mills worked, but some providers are still prescribing lots of drugs
By Al Cross Kentucky Health News The 2012 legislation to crack down on abuse of painkillers in Kentucky had an immediate and significant effect, according to a study by researchers...
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Louisville’s PharMerica is still a defendant in federal cases in which big drug makers have paid billions in fines
Abbott Laboratories has paid billions, and Amgen Inc. has paid millions, in fines for offering “rebates” or “kickbacks” to get pharmacy companies to increase their prescriptions of drugs in nursing...
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State Senate passes bills to lower a barrier to colon-cancer screening and allow patients to synchronize their prescriptions
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News FRANKFORT, Ky. – Two health-related bills, one to remove a financial barrier for colorectal cancer screenings and the other to allow consumers to synchronize prescriptions...
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Former pharmacist and county commissioner discusses his battle with addiction with Hopkinsville newspaper
Jeremy Bowles, a former pharmacist and county commissioner in Montgomery County, Tennessee, was convicted of drug and forgery charges, and now he’s discussing his experience to help others find freedom...