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Charles Ornstein and Tracy Weber

In A Major Shift, Medicare Wants Power to Ban Harmful Prescribe

Medicare plans to arm itself with broad new powers to better control 2014 and potentially ban 2014 doctors engaged in fraudulent or harmful prescribing, following a series of articles by ProPublica detailing lax oversight in its drug program.

January 07th, 2014

By Charles Ornstein and Tracy Weber

In A Major Shift, Medicare Wants Power to Ban Harmful Prescribe

The U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) described the effort late Monday in what's known as a proposed rule, the standard process by which federal agencies make significant changes. Two of the changes mark a dramatic departure for the agency,

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Huge Differences By Region In Prescribing To Elderly, Study Finds

Researchers find seniors are highly prescribed antidepressants, dementia drugs and other medications in specific parts of the country.

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Huge Differences By Region In Prescribing To Elderly, Study Finds

Elderly Americans are prescribed medications in inexplicably different ways depending on where they live, according to a new report from Dartmouth researchers. The

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