Author Archive
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Integration is Disintegrating at the PBM/Pharm Level
Sometimes, just when everything seems to fit together, something unravels. This time it is a relationship between the two biggest purveyors of pharmacy products in the U.S. - Walgreens and Express Scripts. This is an issue that is one of primary concern to employers who have a contract with one ...
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NY Hospitals are “in the game”
The most powerful and influential medical system in NY State is now in the on-site game. As reported by Crain's Health Pulse last week, North Shore-LIJ "sees the need for workplace docs." The article covered a service that they are providing for employees of the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory a...
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Fortune Article on On-Site Clinics
On 8/2/2011 /Fortune magazine published an article on the current status of on-site clinics in the U.S. They quoted leaders from Towers Watson, Cerner and Take Care Health Systems, all companies with a significant commitment to the on-site industry. Included in stats in this article was data...
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Warren Hutton to Assume COO Position at HealthStat
Healthstat announced that it has hired its existing outside legal counsel, Mr. Warren Hutton, to assume the newly created position of COO and General Counsel. He will be responsible for "... the day-to-day management of the company" and for ". . . managing all legal affairs effecting and incident ...
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The Book, the Blog, the Association
The National Association of Worksite Health Centers (NAWHC) is a new non-profit, employer-led organization focused on assisting public and private employers in getting the greatest return on their investment in on-site clinics, pharmacies and fitness and wellness centers. Formed by the non-profit Mi...
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Top Five Conditions by Dollars Spent for Retirees
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (a division of the Department of Health and Human Services) recently reported on the 5 most expensive medical conditions treated in the elderly. The report indicates that nearly 1/3rd of total health care dollars spent were on the elderly, and a maj...
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amednews.com – PCMC Reduces Cost
A 1-year study by the University of California, Davis, Health System was reported on the amednews.com Web site, and was published in the May/June issue of the Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine. The study shows that ". . . including patients in more of the treatment and care-planning d...
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Study Finds Electronic Rx Error Rate Equal to Handwritten
For those employers who have invested mega-dollars in electronic medical records and prescription writing tools, this study demonstrated that those electronic prescriptions have just as many errors in them as the old-fashioned handwritten ones that physician offices fax to the pharmacies. The st...
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Walgrees/Take Care Aligns with Core Peformance
It was announced in a press release yesterday (07/06/2011) that Walgreens and Take Care Health Systems have established a formal relationship with Core Performance to offer wellness services to the Take Care employer clients. Core Performance has programs in wellness, fitness and nutrition which a...
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GENERICS Cost-Shift to Diabetics (Reuters)
Reuters is reporting on a new study that shows cost shifting by Walmart, K-Mart and others in generics and brand pharmaceuticals. Everyone has taken advantage of the cost savings provided by the big box retailers when they dropped generic script prices to a few bucks per fill on commonly prescribe...
