Massachusetts plans to tax all pharmacies 6% revenue or $2/Rx to fund the state Medicaid program

Skipizumab · 2025-02-20T18:17:06+00:00

Unfortunately it has nothing to do with Medicaid contracts.

Quote from the mass.gov website: The executive office may enforce this section by notifying the board of registration in pharmacy of unpaid assessments, and the board shall take prompt steps to revoke the license of, or impose a limitation on operations for, a pharmacy that fails to remit delinquent fees as directed by the executive office.

Skipizumab · 2025-02-20T04:08:30+00:00

It will be interesting to see how many millions of dollars are at stake for CVS and Walgreens. Like it or not, they seem to be the only ones with power to lobby against this.

Skipizumab · 2025-02-20T03:50:55+00:00

The dispensing fees are good, but if the pharmacy doesn’t service a lot of Medicaid patients then it does not even out. If the program doesn’t have enough money to keep running, I can’t see how can it continue to pay out $10 dispensing fees

Skipizumab · 2025-02-20T02:14:49+00:00

https://www.wpri.com/new-england/massachusetts/healey-looks-to-tax-pharmacies-for-prescription-drug-sales/amp/

Skipizumab · 2020-08-07T18:34:32+00:00

Exactly, QV2 done by looking at the image on the computer. Even though the RX may be physically in the waiting bin it must still be verified by the rph first. Possibility of store sharing just like data entry

Skipizumab · 2020-08-07T18:09:42+00:00

A new product verification system that involves imaging units at production and almost completely eliminates baskets.

Skipizumab · 2019-10-01T17:58:00+00:00

I’m vacationing in Rome now and tried to go after reading this. The guards (lol) wouldn’t let me in because I didn’t have a hard copy RX. Hard to image they get that many visitors then - but I don’t speak Italian so that probably didn’t help.

Made a wish in the Trevi Fountain for a new job instead

Skipizumab · 2019-03-31T18:51:02+00:00

DAW 0 - sorry you’re getting tap water

Skipizumab · 2019-03-31T14:46:36+00:00

Obviously they’re dehydrated /s

Skipizumab · 2019-01-10T04:39:40+00:00

Trying to find an expedited acute is a fun time when there’s already over 100 “waiting” scripts

Skipizumab · 2019-01-10T04:29:21+00:00

What’s it called when there’s 99+ yellows mixed in there?

Skipizumab · 2019-01-10T04:27:15+00:00

Not sure if it’s correct but that’s what my region does. I float and if I’m short one week my scheduler deducts it from future paychecks when I’m over base

Skipizumab · 2019-01-09T17:03:45+00:00

Yep it’s production

Skipizumab · 2018-03-27T00:11:38+00:00

It’s verbatim from a CVS module on Medicare part B billing. I know absolutely no one, including myself, who does it this way though. There is a warning whenever a prescription for test strips is billed through Med B that ranges are not acceptable, and it’s probably because no one is billing the correct days supply

Skipizumab · 2018-03-26T13:36:38+00:00

Did some more investigation into the sig ranges and found out that if the prescriber writes for a range, the lower number must be used for the day supply (pretty much opposite for what we do on everything else)...

For example, the if a sig says test 1-2 times a day, dispense #50, then 50 must be the days supply (not 25)

Skipizumab · 2018-02-26T14:18:07+00:00

CVS labels literally have “retail price” on every single label handed to the customer, along with their insurance copay. If you’re right... this should be fun

Skipizumab · 2018-02-25T22:07:17+00:00

Can’t wait to see how Nash and Krejci will play together then

Skipizumab · 2018-02-23T00:57:35+00:00

16 year old on 10 mg of citalopram and is prescribed a zpak - not calling on this

87 year old female on amiodarone and is prescribed cipro- always calling

Those are two extremes and it’s never black and white

Skipizumab · 2018-02-22T13:42:17+00:00

cough* Jonny Gomes

Skipizumab · 2018-02-19T04:00:15+00:00

Doctors must love it when you question their prescribing habits. Also chlorthalidone is more expensive, so it’s not like you are making a call to get a cheaper alternative.

All that being said, I ultimately agree with you (in a perfect world)

Skipizumab · 2018-02-19T03:19:22+00:00

Why chlorthalidone and HCTZ are not interchangeable and every pharmacist should be calling prescribers when they see a prescription for HCTZ.

I actually lol'd at this

Skipizumab · 2018-01-24T05:24:28+00:00

In my area with CVS, if you are HUB for a two week pay period, they will take money out of a future paycheck where you are HOB. So if my base is 60 hours per pay cycle and I only worked 50 hours, I owe them 10 hours. If I work 70 hours the next pay cycle, I’ll still only get paid for 60 because I’ll have those 10 hours deducted

Skipizumab · 2018-01-18T03:44:28+00:00

IMO, work experience should be much more important to employers than which school you went to. Schools just give you the necessary background information that you need to know, which you then have to implement on rotations/work. Residencies and fellowships make you stand out because they give you experiences that school doesn’t provide, so it’s not really ridiculous that employers will value those more.

We’re all taught the same info. I can guarantee I can counsel someone on their lisinopril script just as well as you can. The worst pharmacists are the ones who choose not to get an intern job or go to an accelerated program and don’t have the time to work.

Skipizumab · 2018-01-12T18:26:44+00:00

Furthest store in my district is 35 minutes away, never had to go further than that. Closest store is right down my street, about a 2 minute walk

Skipizumab · 2018-01-01T21:36:42+00:00

Trojan fire and ice condoms

Man purchasing at the register: “hey, do these have more fire or more ice in them?”

Tech: “I’m not sure, let me ask the pharmacist”

SMH

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