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NC Medicaid beneficiaries can receive free at-home tests for COVID-19 from local pharmacies
RALEIGH — The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services has taken action to ensure NC Medicaid beneficiaries have access to free at-home tests for COVID-19.
Be Antibiotics Aware: Detailed medication documentation aids effectiveness
PINEHURST — Antibiotics save lives, but their overuse and misuse can put patients at unnecessary risk for preventable side effects and drug-resistant infections.
Independent pharmacies welcome SCOTUS ruling on benefit managers
RALEIGH — Pharmacist Darius Russell, owner of Russell’s Pharmacy and Shoppe in Durham, hopes to stop losing money on helping patients.
Bill gives state power to audit pharmacy middlemen
RALEIGH — A year ago, Debbie Townsend still hoped she could turn things around.
Her patients don’t know it, but she bleeds money filling many of their prescriptions. In a few weeks, she’ll lose the independent pharmacy she has run for the past 15 years.
Progressive group calls for Medicaid expansion, cites opioid stats
ROCKINGHAM — A left-leaning group is using nearly decade-old statistics on opioid distribution in a call for the expansion of Medicaid — blaming state Republican politicians for the lack of “affordable health care access to rural districts.”
FirstHealth Moore Regional’s Pharmacy Residency Program has Received Re-accreditation
PINEHURST – FirstHealth Moore Regional’s post-graduate year-one (PGY-1) pharmacy residency program has received a full six-year accreditation by the American Society of Health-Systems Pharmacists (ASHP) after a comprehensive two-day survey.
The on-site survey included a thorough investigation of the conduct and structure of our residency program, as well as the examination of national best practices for health system pharmacies.
