You have probably read about this in the news already, but now it looks like they are going after the companies who enroll consumers with health plans too, sending the same type of letter. For updates from Express Scripts, you can check the main support page for any updates. They have contracted...
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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 11-12-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, Other Items of Interest, healthcare, privacy, Prescriptions, Data Breach, Investigation, FBI, Extortion, Express Scripts, Kroll
One more program to confuse us when needing a prescription, although I’m sure there is money to be saved here, but shoot I like the $4.00 or $10.00 generic prescriptions offered by others, no enrollment and no questions asked, simple. For the monthly fee, you might need to be a patient with some...
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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 11-06-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Pharma/FDA News, Other Items of Interest, drugs, healthcare, health insurance, Prescriptions, Medicare Part D, Aetna, Pharmacy, Costco
A qualified system is not faxing! Many offices who are set up with an EMR or EHR are already covered and are either set up and ready to go or have the capabilities. For those who are not, there’s a permanent link on this page to NEPSI, the free e-prescribing initiative where you can sign...
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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 10-31-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, Pharma/FDA News, drugs, healthcare, medicare, health insurance, Physicians, Prescriptions, e-prescribing
The company has 6 months to get the shares up above $1.00 or it goes to the junk category and off the big board. Drug stores are feeling the pinch of the economic slow down, depending on where the stood financially before hand, has an effect on where they are today. Granted Rite Aid had some...
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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 10-17-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Pharma/FDA News, drugs, healthcare, Prescriptions, Pharmaceuticals, Stocks, Rite Aid
This story about Walgreens illustrates a little bit of both. After the economy and Wall Street news of the last couple of weeks, we should know now about how programmers set algorithms to select, process and deliver data. Need a refresher, you can check here relative to Wall Street out coding...
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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 10-01-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, My Commentaries, drugs, healthcare, Prescriptions, Medicaid, Medications, Medicare contractor, Whistle Blower, Data, Data Base, Algorithms
This is not the first time this issue has been in the news in the last couple of years, but the dollars, or lack of dollars perhaps bring this to light once more, and once more it all comes back to money. There are some interesting efforts going on to try and combat the problem, such as Aetna paying...
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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 09-05-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Pharma/FDA News, drugs, healthcare, Pharma, Prescriptions, Aetna, Health Insurance Coverage
Stories like this are sad indeed. It comes back to the dollar and someone playing "God" to determine who gets treatment and who does not. Granted personalized medicine tests will help in time, not only from the actual treatment side, but from the information side of things as well...