Higher Medicare Payments For Hospital Outpatients
This year is good for Medicare beneficiaries who need to get their reimbursement for hospital outpatient pharmacies. Payments were slightly increased comparing to 2010 payments…
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Saving Drugs From Expiring
Some medications in hospitals are really seldom used and administered, but it is important to keep them ready and up-to-date. The medications are usually quite…
Proffered Networks And Lower Costs
There is a new way for employers to save significant costs annually by adopting the new kind of strategy. The strategy is based on benefits…
Kansas Digital Patient Medication Monitoring System
To reduce the number of drug errors and as the part of nationwide health care system reformation, Kansas State Board of Pharmacy will launch a…
Record Fine For CVS
Because of the unlawful sale of pseudoephedrine (which is a key ingredient of the methamphetamine manufacturing), the largest U.S. pharmacy chain CVS will pay $75…
Long-Term Care Pharmacies Age
Nowadays, pharmacies are rethinking their way of their work, including patient safety, quality and some other standards, which came with the health care reform. The…
Cutting Medication Cost By Seniors
John Lair’s medication cost increased from about $47 to $113 at his local pharmacy. John is living in Dallas, he is 72 years old and…
Pharmacists Of The Next Generation
When Pharmacy Times started to collaborate with Parata Systems to investigate, what’s the profile of pharmacist these days, the goals were to get the knowledge…
FSA Cards For Pharmacists In A Nutshell
Flexible Spending Accounts or simply FSA were designed to help consumers to control their health care expenses. A huge amount of customer and pharmacists have…
Safe Medications Use By FDA
Institute of Medicine’s (IOM’s) roundtable discussed health literacy in April gathered a group to talk about how they can help Food and Drug Administration (FDA)…