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Rethinking Opioid Conversions: Mary Lynn McPherson and Drew Rosielle

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Dr. Akhila Reddy and colleagues study looking at converting hospitalized cancer patients from IV hydromorphone to PO morphine, PO hydromorphone, or PO oxycodone. You take their age, their gender, you take their chronic conditions. Pallimed post on “ Simplifying Opioid Conversions ”. You take somebody’s has disability.

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Drug Pricing Reform Gathers Steam (Part 1): White House Drug Pricing Plan Offers Laundry List of Existing Democrat Priorities

FDA Law Blog

In 2018, Trump’s Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released its Blueprint to Lower Drug Prices and Reduce Out-of-Pocket Costs , but the edifice envisioned by the Blueprint largely failed to materialize. Part D currently has no such cap. Other legislative proposals included improving supply chain transparency.