The study included patients admitted to the hospital with recently diagnosed AF in the province of Quebec, Canada, from 1998-2007, using administrative data with linkage between hospital discharge, physicians, and prescription drug claims databases.
For that matter, what's to stop physicians from bulking up their prescription pads?
But to some physicians, that's a prescription for waste and unnecessary costs.
In a petition on its website, the group says it agrees with the goal of the legislation, but argues that mandatory patient record checking, prescription reporting, and penalties for physicians who fail to do so would create undue administrative burdens for doctors.
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Three things: payments to Medicare Advantage insurers, payments to Medicare prescription drug plans, and payments to physicians.
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While it's true that men may seek out natural remedies for sexual dysfunction because they believe they are safer and gentler than their conventional counterparts, it's my experience that some men may be using these supplements as way to avoid discussing sexual issues with their physicians or because they are too embarrassed to fill the prescription at their local pharmacy.
"Most doctors are under the impression that Vicodin (whose main ingredient is hydrocodone) is less addictive than other prescription painkillers, " said Dr. Andrew Kolodny, president of Physicians for Responsible Opioid Prescribing.
While laws vary from state to state, the monitoring programs are used to identify illegal activity such as prescription forgery, indiscriminate prescribing and doctor shopping, according to the DEA. Some programs notify physicians when their patients are seeing multiple prescribers for the same class of drugs.
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Millions of us are popping prescription pills for innocuous ills, when simple lifestyle changes of diet and exercise--harped on by physicians for decades--are more effective and a lot cheaper.
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