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Drug Chains and Benefits Managers Team on E-prescriptions: By Kim Dixon WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Chain drug stores including Walgreens WAG and pharmacy benefits managers like Medco Health Solutions MHS are combining their electronic networks to speed adoption of computerized prescriptions. The nation's three biggest pharmacy benefit managers, Medco, Express...; Tags: HEALTHCARE, Benefits, Walgreen Co., CVS Corp., Caremark Inc., prescription, physician, Washington, mail-order, RAD, health care, health insurance, data network, Medicare, Thomson Reuters Corp., U.S., network, merger, financial, tool; News items 2008-07-01
Wireless Technology Dramatically Reduces Medication Errors: Bar Code System's Approach and Effectiveness Earns Multiple Innovator Awards: Appropriate medication administration requires a strong system of checks and balances to standardize delivery from the time a doctor writes a prescription to the moment the drug is given to a patient. To systematically eliminate medication errors, the Veterans Health Administration VHA partnered with EDS to develop the Bar Code...; Tags: Electronic Data Systems Corp., prescription, physician, wireless technology, patient, handheld, wireless; Case studies
Pharmacies Push the E-Prescribing Boulder Uphill: If you flog it, they will come. Or so ten major pharmacy chains seem to think, since they've just launched a national marketing campaign aimed at raising "consumer awareness" about electronic prescriptions, or e-prescribing free registration required. The logic behind electronic prescriptions is much the same --...; Tags: Pharmacy, Prescription, E-health, Government, Healthcare, Fax, Marketing Research, Marketing, David P. Hamilton; Blog posts 2008-05-01
Anabolic Steroids Are Easily Purchased Without a Prescription and Present Significant Challenges to Law Enforcement Officials: This document consists of a report that responds to a Congressional request to find whether anabolic steroids can be purchased without a prescription and test whether such purchases are easily made. The report further identifies the common sources of illegal anabolic steroids, and significant challenges law enforcement officials encounter in...; Tags: Government Accountability Office, prescription; White papers 2005-11-03
Food and Drug Administration: Decision Process to Deny Initial Application for Over-the-Counter Marketing of the Emergency Contraceptive Drug Plan B Was Unusual: In April 2003, Women's Capital Corporation submitted an application to the Food and Drug Administration FDA requesting the marketing status of its Emergency Contraceptive Pill ECP, Plan B, be switched from prescription to Over-The-Counter OTC. This paper examines how the decision was made to not approve the switch of Plan...; Tags: Federal government, Government Accountability Office, FDA, prescription, marketing, women; White papers 2005-11-01

A Multicenter Point-Prevalence Study: Antimicrobial Prescription Frequencies in Hospitalized Patients in Turkey: Accurate information about prescribing patterns in hospitals is valuable in improving the quality of antimicrobial prescriptions. This paper depicts about a study in which data on the use of antimicrobial agents in eighteen tertiary care hospitals were collected on March 20th 2002. One or more antimicrobials were ordered in 2900...; Tags: HEALTHCARE, BioMed Central, prescription, hospital, patient, agent; White papers 2005-10-03
Prescription Drugs: Price Trends for Frequently Used Brand and Generic Drugs From 2000 Through 2004: Prescription drug spending has been the fastest growing segment of national health expenditures. As the federal government assumes greater financial responsibility for prescription drug expenditures with the introduction of Medicare part D, federal policymakers are increasingly concerned about prescription drug prices. The report examines the change in retail prices and...; Tags: HEALTHCARE, Benefits, Government Accountability Office, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Medicare, beneficiary, prescription, health care, health insurance, pricing strategy, financial; White papers 2005-08-01
Employers Are Using New Strategies to Manage Prescription Drug Costs: Prescription drug costs have grown at double-digit rates over the past two decades, representing roughly 18% of the total medical spend for active employees and close to 40% for retirees. A growing number of organizations are tackling the drug trend head on and realizing measurable savings by using multipronged approaches...; Tags: Towers Perrin, prescription, incentive, strategy; White papers 2005-07-19
It's Time for Employers to Address the Shifting Burden of Prescription Drug Costs: It is not news that rising health care costs are a major concern of Canadian governments and employers. The number of retail prescriptions dispensed to Canadians will approach 400 million this year. The cost of these prescriptions will top C$17 billion. The Biological Industry Organization BIO estimates that approximately 350...; Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Mercer, prescription, health care; White papers 2005-06-23
Prescription Drug Spending: Maximizing the Investment: In recent years, the price of medicines and escalating drug spending has garnered significant public attention. When patients pick up their prescriptions today, their first question is, "Why must they pay this much money for a bottle of little pills?" They often lack an understanding of the value these little...; Tags: Ernst & Young LLP, prescription, patient; White papers 2005-04-25
Home Medical Equipment, Orthotics, and Prosthetics Guide: This report provides with benefit and claims filing information for home medical equipment HME, orthotics, and prosthetics for Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Iowa, Wellmark Health Plan of Iowa, Inc. WHPI, and Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield of South Dakota. To consider benefits for HME, orthotics, or...; Tags: prosthetics, Blue Cross Blue Shield, prescription, physician, patient, medical equipment, benefit; White papers 2005-04-01
Prescription Drugs and the Changing Patterns of Treatment for Mental Disorders: This white paper uses detailed data on prescription drug and other services from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey MEPS to examine recent trends in mental health and substance abuse (MH/SA) treatment between 1996 and 2001. While use of ambulatory services remained constant, prescription drug use increased rapidly, with the result...; Tags: HEALTHCARE, Project HOPE, prescription drug, prescription, health care; White papers 2004-12-09
Health Plans' Strategies to Control Prescription Drug Spending: A number of studies have documented the sizable impact of consumer cost sharing without accounting for the other drug management strategies being adopted simultaneously. This qualitative case study of five of California's largest health plans examines the strategies and methods used to control prescription drug use and spending. Higher cost...; Tags: Vertical industries, HEALTHCARE, Benefits, Project HOPE, prescription, health care, physician, strategy, incentive, accounting; White papers 2004-12-01
Should Hospitals Be Allowed to Charge What They Like for Private Prescriptions?: Unlike NHS prescriptions, where charges are set by the Department of Health, there is no standardized formula for the pricing of private prescriptions. Some years ago the Society did issue recommended scales and fees for the dispensing and supply of medicines However, in September/October 1989 a decision was taken to...; Tags: HEALTHCARE, prescription, hospital, pricing strategy; White papers 2004-10-09
Prescription Drug Spending Trends for the Privately Insured in Maryland, 2000-2001: Out-of-pocket drug spending per patient rose 25 percent in 2001 for the privately insured nonelderly in Maryland, outpacing the 10 percent increase in total drug spending per patient. Prescription drug use patterns changed little in response to a 30 percent rise in co-payments, with the number of prescriptions per patient...; Tags: Project HOPE, prescription, patient, Maryland; White papers 2004-10-01
Looking Inside the Nation's Medicine Cabinet: Trends in Outpatient Drug Spending by Medicare Beneficiaries, 1997 and 2001: This document examines the trends in outpatient prescription drug spending by the Medicare civilian, non institutionalized population in 1997 and 2001 using nationally representative data from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey. It finds that the 72 percent increase in drug spending over this period, in excess of price inflation for...; Tags: HEALTHCARE, Project HOPE, prescription, Medicare, inflation; White papers 2004-10-01
A Prescription for Leading in Cynical Times: While there is nothing inherently wrong in a CEO's command to "Just believe me," there may be something horribly wrong with the CEO - for example, a lack of honesty, credibility or even competence. These authors, noted experts who have written several books on leadership, offer a prescription for restoring...; Tags: prescription, CEO, leadership, leader, health care; White papers 2004-07-01
Internet Pharmacies: Hydrocodone, an Addictive Narcotic Pain Medication, Is Available Without a Prescription Through the Internet: The paper summarizes the results of its investigation of some of the business practices of certain U.S. Internet pharmacies that sold narcotics without a prescription. It attempts to obtain information about the sources of hydrocodone that it purchased without a prescription from eight U.S. online pharmacies. Hydrocodone is an addictive...; Tags: Government Accountability Office, pharmacy, prescription, medication, Internet; White papers 2004-06-17
Guide to Choosing a Medicare-Approved Drug Discount Card: The cost of paying for prescription drugs has been increasing every year, especially for people with Medicare. Medicare pays for some prescriptions, like certain cancer drugs, but Medicare doesn't cover everything. Many people with Medicare have prescription drug coverage through other insurance like an employer group health plan, a Medicare...; Tags: HEALTHCARE, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Medicare, prescription, card, insurance, health care; White papers 2004-03-01
Prescription Drugs: Recent Trends in Utilization, Expenditures, and Coverage: Prescription drug costs, which rose by 15.7 percent in 2001, are the fastest rising component of medical expenditures and accounted for 16.7 percent of the total increase in health care spending that year. Americans spent more than $140 billion on prescription drugs in 2001-or about 10 percent of the nation's...; Tags: HEALTHCARE, prescription drug, prescription, health care; White papers 2004-01-01