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Prescribing Red Flags and Suspicious Controlled Substance Orders: Current Cautionary Tales

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Prescriptions Containing No Diagnosis or Intended Use Controlled substance prescriptions issued with a non-specific diagnosis or no diagnosis. On October 10th, based on ability to pay, the U.S. 11, 2023 ( DOJ Press Release ). Our post on the Betances distributor decision and suspicious orders will appear in the near future.

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Prescribing Red Flags: Pharmacists Be Wary of What the Doctor Orders

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Patients paying cash or a cash equivalent for controlled substance prescriptions, especially when they use insurance to pay for other prescriptions. By Larry K. Houck Last month the U.S. The Amended Complaint, MOA and Corporate Integrity Agreement provide sound framework for identifying and not filling prescriptions exhibiting red flags.

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End-of-Life Doulas: A Podcast with Jane Euler, Beth Klint, and John Loughnane

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There’s an organization that I took my training from, which began, I want to say, in 2012. But before we jump into that topic, John, do you have the song request for Alex? John: I do. It’s Jimmy Buffett’s song, Bubbles Up. It was on his last album. As you may know, Jimmy Buffett passed away in August of a rare skin cancer.

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Trump Whacks Agency That Makes the Nation’s Health Care Safer

Physicians News Digest

On April 1, the Trump administration slashed the organization that supported that research — the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, or AHRQ — and fired roughly half of its remaining employees as part of a perplexing reorganization of the federal Health and Human Services Department. Without AHRQ, we’d be doing even worse.”