Hoboken Family Pharmacy

10/13/2022

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/08/upshot/medicare-advantage-fraud-allegations.html

By next year, half of Medicare beneficiaries will have a private Medicare Advantage plan. Most large insurers in the program have been accused in court of fraud.

10/07/2022

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2022/10/07/1127017062/early-signs-a-new-u-s-covid-surge-could-be-on-its-way

Here we go again. The virus is starting to surge in many European countries and there are early signs a wave may be starting in the U.S. too.

09/26/2022

https://fortune.com/well/2022/09/24/new-covid-omicron-variants-subvariants-evade-monoclonal-antibodies-bebtelovimab-recombinants-convergent-evolution-sars-immune-evasion/

One up and coming variant renders society’s last universal COVID antibody drug powerless, experts say. Another variant isn’t far behind it.

09/23/2022

https://ncpa.org/newsroom/qam/2022/09/22/speak-your-tricare-patients

Please contact your federal legislators and urge them to sign on to a letter led by Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) and Rep. Buddy Carter (R-Ga.) that demands answers from the Department of Defense on the recent Tricare pharmacy contracts. Express Scripts slashed pharmacy reimbursements for 2023 making it....

09/20/2022

Influenza is always unpredictable. Infectious disease experts like to hedge their forecasts with a caution: When you've seen one flu season, you've seen one flu season.

08/18/2022

https://www.wsj.com/articles/cvs-walgreens-and-walmart-ordered-to-pay-650-million-to-ohio-counties-in-opioid-case-11660767960

A jury last year found the companies owning CVS, Walgreens and Walmart pharmacies were liable for contributing to the opioid epidemic in Lake and Trumbull counties.

07/26/2022

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/time-expose-secret-drug-scam-094700224.html?guccounter=2

A federal court recently exposed the rot at the heart of America’s healthcare system. The case, filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, partly revolved around the many low-income, and even middle-income, patients who receive “co-pay coupons” from drug manufacturers to he...

07/20/2022

https://www.truthrx.org/post/healthcare-policy-expert-ftc-could-put-insurers-drug-middlemen-on-a-diet

The Federal Trade Commission has an opportunity to impact healthcare for Americans. Newsweek Fat can sometimes cause healthcare issues, but not the extra 10 pounds — which is actually 30 — that some Americans want to lose. It's the fat in the U.S. healthcare system. You might immediately think o...