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The Sunshine Act requires manufacturers of drugs, medical devices, biological and medical supplies covered by the three federal health care programs Medicare, Medicaid, and State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) to collect and track all financial relationships with physicians and teaching hospitals and to report these data to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).
Medicare Part B covers blood sugar test strips as a type of durable medical equipment (DME). After paying the annual Part B deductible, a person will only pay 20% of the cost of the test strips.
A standalone bill in 2024 by state Rep. John Forbes would have made fentanyl test strips legal and gone a step further by ordering state agencies and other groups to make them and naloxone doses ...
Place the wavy end of the test strip in the water and let it absorb for about 15 seconds. Then, take the strip out of the water and place it onto a flat surface for 2-5 minutes.
On the federal level the Office of Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Justice are usually involved, and on the state level, the state attorney general and the state offices involved in Medicaid or Medicare are involved. [1] CIA can be used to address quality of care [2] or corporate integrity ...
One common form of drug checking is fentanyl test strips (FTS). FTS are an affordable product available as small paper strips that can detect the presence of fentanyl. [ 5 ] The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) determined synthetic opioids, like fentanyl, to be the main culprit in increased U.S. opioid-related deaths. [ 6 ]
Law enforcement officials warn that drug dealers now use fentanyl test strips on their pills and then post photos on social media to prove their drugs are “clean.”
A bill that would decriminalize all the strips used to test deadly drugs in West Virginia, the state with the nation's highest overdose rate, is headed to the desk of Republican Gov. Jim Justice.