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Medicare and Medicaid fraud cases involving pharmacies and pharmacists are being reported and investigated at an alarming rate across the US recently. Just this past week an interesting Medicaid fraud case involving a New Jersey pharmacy was the subject of an investigation that received a great deal
Pharmacies located in a physician's practice or a doctors’ office are dramatically on the rise in the US. The pace of physicians and MD's dispensing prescriptions in their offices and opening a pharmacy on site or in their clinics is rapidly increasing in many geographic areas of the country. There
Patient counseling by pharmacists has recently been the subject of various news reports and a topic that is being discussed by both patients and pharmacists on a national level. Being labeled as "Mandated Patient Counseling by Pharmacists", new legislation and rules have been enacted by several stat
PDMP's are data bases that collect, store and share controlled substances prescription data for an individual specific state in the US. These PDMP databases represent yet another area where pharmacy technology is emerging quickly and leading the healthcare team to improve the monitoring of a patient
EPCS (Electronic Prescribing for Controlled Substances) is starting to help pharmacies in the national war against opioids. Drug abuse is a major national epidemic as declared by the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) several years ago. When discussing pharmacy and emerging technologie
Pharmacy has historically embraced technology far faster than any other medical profession. The early use of technology by pharmacies has been documented in numerous instances and has labeled pharmacists and the entire profession as "early adapters". Nowhere else has such swift adaptation to compute
Out of State Licensing Many pharmacies are currently exploring the opportunity to service customers in other states to increase their market share and profits. Almost every state requires that any pharmacy that does ship or mail prescription medications into their state must possess a non-resident l
Medication Therapy Management and Pharmacy Technology Trends Medication Therapy Management (also commonly referred to as MTM) is defined by the American Pharmacists Association (APhA) is a very broad range of services that pharmacists provide to optimize a patient's medication therapies by actively
Will Amazon Affect Independent Community Pharmacies? By now everyone knows that the giant web-retailer Amazon has announced its intention of entering the prescription marketplace. As reported by CNBC in May of this year, Amazon is actively engaged in getting into the multi-billion dollar prescriptio
New Independent Pharmacies Opening Nationally The opening of new independent pharmacies is taking place at an amazing pace. After discussing pharmacies closing and being shutdown recently, it was encouraging news to see that during August of 2017 an estimated 100 new independent pharmacies were open
Pharmacies Shutting Down Several recent examples of pharmacies closing their doors and shutting down have been in the news the past few weeks. As a business person, every pharmacy owner needs to honestly ask themselves if they are reviewing their business objectively. Is their business plan evolving
The Worst States For Pharmacy Jobs What are the worst states for a pharmacist to work in or get a job in? An interesting article recently published by Drug Topics gave the following list of states that they recommended pharmacists looking to relocate should avoid:1. Nevada2. New Mexico3. Louisiana4.