The drug Naloxone, often sold under the brand name Narcan, has become a critical tool in the fight against the opioid epidemic. But since the drug’s ability to counter overdoses became popularized in 2014, its price has more than doubled. ...

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A Democratic congressman says he got a call from President Donald Trump, who wants to meet him to discuss the price of prescription drugs. Maryland Rep. Elijah Cummings said Thursday he received the short but cordial call a day earlier, ...

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A Hagerstown pharmacist has been sentenced to 30 months in prison for improperly billing Medicare and Medicaid more than $200,000 for unlawful prescriptions for oxycodone and methadone. Sixty-two-year-old David Russo was also ordered to pay restitution and surrender his pharmacy ...

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Management at CVS allegedly has had a prescription for pharmacists at the chain’s stores: Get those automatic refills rolling or you don’t get a raise.

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IOWA CITY, Iowa — A fugitive doctor charged in the nation’s largest prosecution of Internet pharmacies is getting off in part because there’s just too much evidence in his case: more than 400,000 documents and two terabytes of electronic data ...

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WASHINGTON — It would take a mighty big pill box to hold them. A pharmacy in Kansas billed Medicare for more than 1,000 prescriptions each for two patients in a single year, part of a pattern of questionable billings at ...

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I was struck recently by a radio ad for an insurance company in which the narrator described a situation where a patient went to two doctors and received two different medications. When the patient went to the pharmacist to have ...

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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court decision late last month that state-law failure-to-warn claims against generic drug makers are preempted by federal law — handed down just two years after the Court held that brand-name drug makers could face such suits ...

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Maryland Medicaid could save $167 million over the next decade by taking a more market-oriented approach, according to a new report. “Medicaid is one of the few pharmacy benefit programs that still relies heavily upon a fee-for-service approach,” said Mark ...

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