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

FDA Law Blog

11, 2023 ( DOJ Press Release ). 6, 2023 ( DOJ Press Release ). The government asserted additional allegations that are outside our scope. District Court for the Western District of Texas imposed a $275,000 civil penalty on Zarzamora Healthcare LLC, in San Antonio, and its pharmacist-owner. Zarzamora Press Release.

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Have Job-Based Health Coverage at 65? You May Still Want To Sign Up for Medicare

Physician's Weekly

When Alyne Diamond fell off a horse in August 2023 and broke her back, her employer-based health plan through UnitedHealthcare covered her emergency care in Aspen, Colorado. It also covered related pain management and physical therapy after she returned home to New York City. The bills totaled more than $100,000.

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Q&A: Prioritizing Early Intervention in Pediatric Obesity

Physician's Weekly

However, we cannot overlook systemic factors, such as access to care, socioeconomic status, neighborhood safety, or walkability, that make it more challenging for some individuals to maintain a healthy weight. We also need to pick up on when a child is gaining weight rapidly or crossing percentiles so we can intervene earlier.

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Green Practice News: April 2025

My Green Doctor

In This Issue : New Research: Teaching Patients about Climate Resilience Make the Pledge Today to Go Green Get Ready for Earth Day 2025 (part 2)! According to the 2023 report of the Lancet Countdown, mortality caused by extreme heat events increased by 53.7% from 2000 to 2018 among people over 65 years old. of total U.S.

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

FDA Law Blog

86, 72703 (December 22, 2021), DEA emphasized in the Gulf Med decision that prescribing [r]ed flags are circumstances surrounding a prescription that cause a pharmacist to take pause, including signs of diversion or the potential for patient harm. Patients filling prescriptions at the same time at multiple pharmacies. 81, 86, 251.

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Pharmacists in Florida (and Elsewhere): Waive Prescribing Red Flags at Your Peril

FDA Law Blog

After issuing an Order to Show Cause and Immediate Suspension of Registration in September 2022, and an administrative hearing in March 2023, DEA adopted the hearing Administrative Law Judge’s (“ALJ’s”) Recommended Decision to revoke Coconut Grove’s registration based on the public interest factors of 21 U.S.C. 72,694, 72,703 (Dec.

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Welcome to SRP-RMT – Standardization Comes to Regenerative Medicine Therapies?

FDA Law Blog

Lewis, Senior Regulatory Device & Biologics Expert — On October 20, 2023, FDA announced the availability of the final guidance authored by CBER titled “Voluntary Consensus Standards Recognition Program for Regenerative Medicine Therapies.” Tobolowsky & Richard A. It finalized a draft guidance published in 2022.