6/6/13 - Pharmacy Breached Proving I can pull my weight with something other than a sniper. -- http://www.twitch.tv/impact1983/c/2389095 utm_campaign=archive_export utm_source=impact1983 utm_... By: ImpactTwitch … Continue reading →

Art Pharmacy - Prescription for Art Lovers - Pop Up Art Show - City Vs Nature Sydney Art Pharmacy's - Pop Up Show -CITY vs NATURE - Thursday 2nd May- Sunday 12th May This exhibition will showcase original art from established and emerging Aus... By: Art Pharmacy … Continue reading →

BLOOMFIELD, Conn. & LISLE, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Cigna Corporation (CI) today announced it will build on its pharmacy benefits business by entering into a ten-year strategic PBM partnering agreement with Catamaran (NASDAQ: CTRX, TSX: CCT) which combines the customer focus and clinical excellence of Cigna's pharmacy team with the capabilities of Catamaran, and the combined purchasing scale of the two companies. Cigna will continue to offer fully integrated management of medical and pharmacy benefits consistent with its business strategy. These two market leading organizations will partner on sourcing, fulfillment, and clinical services to drive superior cost and clinical outcomes for clients and customers. Delivering this integrated benefit approach brings increased opportunity to create value for customers, clients and shareholders, and better positions the companies for future growth. Our integrated pharmacy benefit management business has delivered exceptional results for our customers and clients and continues to be an essential part of our strategy, said David M. Cordani, President and Chief Executive Officer. This strategic PBM partnering agreement will complement Cignas strengths of partnering with physicians to engage customers in their overall health and wellness. Connected to Catamarans industry-leading health care information technology and service solutions, we will deliver differentiated options for clients … Continue reading →

TAMPA, Fla., June 10, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Comprehensive Care Corporation (OTC BB: CHCR), ("CompCare" or the "Company"), a leading behavioral health, substance abuse and pharmacy management provider for employers, Taft-Hartley health and welfare funds, managed care companies, third party administrators, and unionsponsored benefit plans, today announced the launching of a sales and business development team under the guidance and leadership of Lt. Col. Ramon Martinez (USAF, Ret.), President of CompCare Pharmacy Solutions, Inc. The team will focus on CompCare's goals of becoming the first choice in pharmacy management, wellness and behavioral health for unions and their families, municipalities, health maintenance organizations, self-insured's and private sector groups. "Simultaneously with the development of our Pharmacy Value Management Program ("PVM Program" or "Program"), we began to assemble the core personnel needed to head up a national sales force to sell our PVM Program. Our objective was to have in place senior sales and marketing personnel trained on our Program, each with an independent book of business and relationships, prepared and ready to market our Program as soon as it was ready. I am extremely pleased to announce that not only is the Program ready so is our sales force," said Lt. Col. Ramon … Continue reading →

By CLARKE CANFIELD/Associated Press/June 10, 2013 PORTLAND, Maine (AP) The state is on pace to see a large drop in pharmacy robberies, but police are warning that one apparent reason for the decline is the increasing use of heroin. Maine, which had a record 56 pharmacy robberies last year, has had five in the first five months of 2013 and is on pace to have fewer than a dozen for the year. The high arrest rate about 80 percent of last years robberies resulted in arrests is being partly credited with the decline. But the more disturbing reason is the surge in cheap heroin, said Department of Public Safety Commissioner John Morris. I know anecdotally the price of heroin is less than (synthetic) opiates, and it makes sense that people are going to heroin because its cheaper, meaning drug users are less likely to turn to robbing pharmacies to satisfy their addictions, Morris said. Five years ago, Maine had only two drug store robberies. But addicts in recent years have targeted drug stores in search of oxycodone, hydrocodone and other prescription painkillers that, like heroin, are opiates. The robbery count rose into the 20s in 2010 and 2011 before spiking … Continue reading →