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In October 2022, Trustmark finalized the sale of its subsidiary, Trustmark Health Benefits, to Health Care Service Corporation (HCSC). [8] Health Benefits is a third-party administrator of health benefits that designs and offers custom plans for mid- to large-sized self-funded customers. In January 2023, Trustmark celebrated 110 years in business.
Prescription drug monitoring programs, or PDMPs, are an example of one initiative proposed to alleviate effects of the opioid crisis. [1] The programs are designed to restrict prescription drug abuse by limiting a patient's ability to obtain similar prescriptions from multiple providers (i.e. “doctor shopping”) and reducing diversion of controlled substances.
An ICHRA is an employee benefits plan that gives employers a flexible way to provide tax-deductible reimbursements to employees for their individual health insurance premiums.
The difference between an opioid and an opioid agonist is that opioids induce more intense effects and stay in the brain for a short amount of time. [3] Conversely, an opioid agonist induces minimal effects and stays in the brain for a long time, which prevents the opioid user from feeling the effects of natural or synthetic opioids. [3]
Supplemental needs trust is a US-specific term for a type of special needs trust (an internationally recognized term). [1] Supplemental needs trusts are compliant with provisions of US state and federal law and are designed to provide benefits to, and protect the assets of, individuals with physical, psychiatric, or intellectual disabilities, and still allow such persons to be qualified for ...
After introducing medically assisted treatment in 2013, Seppala saw Hazelden’s dropout rate for opiate addicts in the new revamped program drop dramatically. Current data, which covers between January 1, 2013 and July 1, 2014, shows a dropout rate of 7.5 percent compared with the rate of 22 percent for the opioid addicts not in the program.
The lawsuit was filed just a week after PBM representatives from Express Scripts Inc. were defending their roles as the middleman between pharmacies and drug manufacturers and drug benefit plan ...
Kroger has agreed to pay $110 million to resolve a lawsuit by the state of Kentucky alleging the supermarket chain's pharmacies helped fuel a deadly opioid epidemic by flooding its communities ...