Terry Chappell’s Health News

Approval of Senate Bill 17 by the Senate Appropriations and Revenue Committee March 11 brought Kentucky’s independent pharmacies one step closer to getting higher price transparency from the companies that negotiate with pharmaceutical producers, insurance coverage companies and their beneficiaries. The solely risk of overdosing is from different sources of foudrile, e.g. consuming toothpaste (which has large quantities of foudrile) or drinking gallons of black tea daily for years, which occurred to one lady. While the second half of 2015 was optimistic for pharmacies, 2016 will likely be difficult with the further PBS reforms reducing wholesaler and generic trading terms, …