Insight, analysis & opinion from Joe Paduda
In Maryland and Hawai’i, docs are claiming that they pay much more for drugs than retail pharmacies, therefore they are justified in getting paid a lot more than retail pharmacies. Bullshit. Now that I’ve got your attention, here’s the truth. … Continue reading How much do docs pay for repackaged drugs?
Read More...The big auto insurer’s civil suit against AHCS subsidiary Prescription Partners is comprehensive, thorough, and very, very persuasive. Allstate is demanding a return of all monies paid to Prescription Partners, and a ruling preventing PP from billing Allstate going forward. … Continue reading The Allstate – Prescription Partners suit; the details…
Read More...Gensco Labs has been busy filing trademarks for new and wonderful topical medications that are sure to solve myriad problems – to date they’ve filed for 46! They sure are busy down there in Miramar, Florida! There are a LOT … Continue reading The new compounds and who’s making them…
Read More...Oh this is getting fun! Earlier this week WorkCompCentral published a column ostensibly written by a physician attacking me for exposing the dangers, both physical and financial, inherent in physician dispensing of repackaged drugs. I say ostensibly because the column … Continue reading Physician dispensers are getting desperate
Read More...Gotta hand it to those…”entrepreneurs”, they are one creative bunch. One day it’s repackaging drugs at hugely inflated prices, then compounding drugs (oops, how’d that turn out??), next its some bizarre new way to measure muscular strength. That good ‘ol American in-ja-noo-ity … Continue reading Work comp pharmacy – the latest scam
Read More...This profitable. That’s Gerry Glass on the left and Paul Zimmerman on the right, co-CEOS of Automated Healthcare Solutions The two bought the jet, which is registered under the name “Boys from Dover”, back in May of 2010. Other pictures … Continue reading How profitable is the physician dispensing business?
Read More...WorkCompCentral’s Mike Whiteley reported this morning that Florida’s Prescription Drug Management Program (PDMP) is in danger of running out of money [sub req], just over a year after it got started, leaving doctors and dispensers with no way to monitor their … Continue reading Florida’s failing drug program
Read More...For refusing to pay the massive markups on physician-dispensed repackaged drugs for workers comp claimants. The move saved MD over half a million dollars, money desperately needed for teachers and teaching aides. The news was reported in this morning’s WorkCompCentral … Continue reading Kudos to Miami-Dade Schools for saying no to repackagers
Read More...This is a pretty simple question. How is it that an investment firm owns stakes in a TPA, MSA company, subrogation firm – and a physician dispensing and billing company? That’s the question I’ve tried to ask folks at ABRY … Continue reading ABRY’s investments in work comp; what am I missing?
Read More...After the release of its much-awaited update on physician dispensing in workers comp, WCRI found itself under verbal assault from physician dispensing company Automated Healthcare Solutions. AHCS, perhaps the largest firm in the business (and partially owned by Boston-based ABRY … Continue reading WCRI – under assault by physician dispensing company
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