Rogue Pharmacist

Wth?

Lawmakers spiked pharmacy bills after DeSantis officials moved to debunk claims pushed by advocacy group | The Capitolist thecapitolist.com/lawmakers-spik…

Wondered WTF was wrong in Floriduh......... and now we know. So what now?

“Doctors are like soldiers,” Dr. Manisha Jadhav would say. “They can’t be unavailable.” Dr. Jadhav, 51, died of the coronavirus. nyti.ms/3ueZTDF

Study findings do not support the use of ivermectin for treatment of mild #COVID19, although larger trials may be needed to understand effects on other clinically relevant outcomes ja.ma/2PS0HQ8

@kelly_rdc PBMs

What do you wish had never been invented?

@silvergirl810 @chrissyfarr WTH?

@chrissyfarr As a nurse I can lose my license if I give nutritional advice because my advice would not be the same as the ADA for diabetes etc. so o have to keep my mouth shut

Doctors/ nurses: Curious if you talk to your patients about food & nutrition? And if so, what’s been effective? If not, do you refer out - and if so, to whom?

@chrissyfarr Pharmacists have been very helpful here and have some programs (science based) and coaching and accountability along with some meal replacements to go with have changed lives and turned back diabetes etc

What a jerk! All stale pcma talking points. What did PBMs promise Clay county Republicans or their candidates? Wasn’t that termed out leg from there a #benefitsbroker? Hum....

Roy Exum: Cigna: No White Men - Chattanoogan.com chattanoogan.com/2021/3/25/4254…

"The controller in Lehigh County, Pa., estimated the county could have saved $1.4 million in 2019 if local officials were aware of the extent of rebates that were pocketed by Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield, which hired Express Scripts to provide..." legalreader.com/ohio-ag-files-…

Read this article from @RobertPearlMD : "How Health Insurance Became America’s Biggest Hustle" drugch.nl/300OB8L @Forbes A deeply cynical -- but largely accurate -- explanation of the con behind high-deductible health plans #HDHP

Today's fun #PBM / #Insurer vertical integration factoid: @AnthemInc $ANTM accounts for more than half of its in-house @Ingenio_Rx #PBM business drugch.nl/3sKzr3E Note that @CVSHealth $CVS provides claims processing and #prescription fulfillment services for IngenioRx

Intriguing via @WSJ : @cvspharmacy $CVS @Walgreens $WBA Look for Big Data Reward From #Covid19 Vaccinations drugch.nl/30ikklU Per article: "Chains plan to use information they collect on vaccine recipients to promote stores, tailor marketing"

Covid amplified inequality in 2020—by race as well as income, gender, occupation, and nationality trib.al/L1Y1CQk via @BW

@DrugChannels @GoodRx Our cash prices (without) goodrx or insurance is at that same amount - it’s incredible really

Wow. #Pharmacy benefits are broken. For 2020: 1. #PBMs paid @GoodRx $GDRX $488 million (+34% vs. '19) 👇 2. GoodRx = ~$3.4 B of U.S. #prescription revenues (~1% of total #Rx mkt) 3. 70% of consumers had comm'l ins. or Medicare - but used GoodRx anyway! drugch.nl/3clvzzz

China refused to give raw data on early COVID-19 cases to a World Health Organization-led team probing the origins of the pandemic, one of the team's investigators said, potentially complicating efforts to understand how the outbreak began.​ reuters.com/article/us-hea…

@DrugChannels And that’s the BIGGEST money flow

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@CMerandi @AmmahStarr @janbra1 Wow

@AmmahStarr @janbra1 Dr. Safo We must continue to bring awareness to Dr. Susan Moore! Dr Andrew Kolodny of @brandeisuniversity insinuates blacks are better off not receiving pain medication. We rally May 13 Waltham MA

In America, patients are forced to D-rated mail order pharmacies as the only option of coverage for life-saving medications. #stopPBMabuse #insulin4all Safe access to medications is as critical as affordability. bbb.org/us/mo/saint-lo…