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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.
Elderly Pharmaceutical Insurance Coverage (EPIC) [1] [2] [3] ("New York State's Senior Prescription Plan") [4] was designed so that personal/out-of-pocket costs for medicines are reduced or largely paid for program participants by the state. [1] Members are also given assistance with Medicare Part D. [5]
The Ohio Automated Rx Reporting System (OARRS) is Ohio's state Prescription Monitoring Program (PMP) and is controlled by the Ohio State Board of Pharmacy. [1] The law permitting the Board of Pharmacy to create the PMP was signed on March 18, 2005, and became effective January 1, 2006. The OARRS program began operation on October 2, 2006.
The original company, called MedPartners Inc., was founded as a physician and pharmacy benefits management company in 1993. [1] It was founded in Birmingham, Alabama by former HealthSouth Corporation chief executive Richard Scrushy. [1] New Enterprise Associates was an initial investor in the company. [2] MedPartners went public in February ...
In 2028 and every year after, Medicare will negotiate a new set of 20 drugs. 50 million Americans are enrolled in the Medicare Part D prescription drug program, over 3 million of which are in New ...
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In Kentucky, for example, a law to improve monitoring of prescription practices, known as the Pill Mill Bill (KRS 218A.175 et seq.), has been in effect since 2012. [20] By 2012, 41 U.S. states had implemented such prescription monitoring program, and by 2019 all states except Missouri had implemented such programs. [21]