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Search results for "Walgreen's" ...
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Moonlighting deputies funnel cash to sheriff
Deputies working off-duty paid details at places such as Walgreens and Wal-Mart all pay Sheriff Marlin Gusman one dollar for every hour they work, providing Gusman with about $100,000 in discretionary money each year. Gusman, who often pleads penury in running his office, uses the detail money to throw parties for his staff and hire cheerleaders -- such expenditure is illegal, the Attorney General's Office has opined.
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Rx For Errors
Potentially life-threatening errors in filling prescriptions stem from the corporate policies of major pharmacy chains.
Tags: pharmaceutical; medication; technician; Walgreens; CVS;
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Prescriptions for Error
"The ABC Investigative Team filled 100 prescriptions at the country's top retail pharmacies in four states. Our undercover investigation found a shocking 22% error rate, 1 out of 5, of prescriptions filled at major retails pharmacies. In another shocking finding, the people behind the counter filling the prescriptions were often not trained pharmacists, but high schools students."
Tags: medicine; prescriptions; pharmacy; pharmacist; Florida; Walgreen's;
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Medicine Chess. Pharmacies say rates paid by Rite Aid Unit are doing them in. They claim reimbursements are too low to make dispensing worthwhile. No conflict, chain responds.
According to the article, "Independent pharmacies have been struggling for years, owing to competition from large drugstore chains. But in Philadelphia, even three of the highly efficient chains--CVS, Walgreen's and Eckerd--have quit filling many Medicaid prescriptions because of the reimbursement rates. But not Rite Aid. It has 157 drugstores in the Philadelphia area, and the more rivals give up, the more prescriptions Rite Aid fills and the more over-the-counter items it sells to prescription customers. The low Medicaid reimbursement rates don't bother Rite-Aid."
Tags: Rite-Aid; Walgreen's; Eckerd; Philadelphia; pharmacies; Medicaid; prescriptions; drugs; medicine; over the counter; drugstores; chains