opioids
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Pharma
Opioid Maker Endo Health Solutions to Pay $1.1B, Forfeit $450M
It's the second-largest criminal financial penalty levied against a drug maker.
Payer
Payers, SUD, and VBC: 'There's a Lot of Meat on This Bone'
MCO collaboration and value creation were a focus of the second annual Inspire Recovery conference.
Payer
7 Fast Facts on the New SUD Privacy Regulations
Meet the organizations that helped bring substance use disorder privacy and consent into the 21st century.
Pharma
Records Show Publix Opioid Sales Grew Even as Addiction Crisis Prompted Other Chains' Pullback
While national pharmacy chains like CVS and Walgreens were dispensing fewer of the highly addictive drugs, Publix's sales were soaring.
Technology
How to Use EHRs to Reduce Dangerous Drug-Drug Interactions
New research from the Regenstrief Institute gives health system executives specific recommendations on how to use their EHRs to help...
Pharma
'They See a Cash Cow': Corporations Could Consume $50B of Opioid Settlements
But as the dollars land in government coffers a swarm of private, public, nonprofit, and for-profit entities are eyeing the...
Pharma
Millions in Opioid Settlement Funds Sit Untouched as Overdose Deaths Rise
The money is part of the approximately $50 billion that states and local governments will receive nationwide in opioid settlement...
CMO
For People With Sickle Cell Disease, ERs Can Mean Life-Threatening Waits
A crisis can quickly escalate into life-threatening complications such as strokes, seizures, and sepsis.
Technology
DEA Extending Telemedicine Prescription Waiver Through 2024
The agency is once again extending a pandemic-era waiver enabling providers to prescribe controlled substances via telemedicine without first needing...
Telehealth
Remote Testing Proves Effective for Opioid Screening
More than 83% of patients in the study completed multiple remote urine screenings within the first 30 days of entering...
Telehealth
The DEA Relaxed Online Prescribing Rules During Covid. Now It Wants to Rein Them In.
Controlled medications include many stimulants, sedatives, opioid painkillers, and anabolic steroids.
Pharma
Indivior, 42 AGs Reach $102M Suboxone Antitrust Settlement
The AGs had claimed that Invidior used 'product hopping' to block competition from generics for its opioid treatment drug.