It’s been a while since I talked about this “code hosing” tactic here and that’s exactly what it is and now that we have the extra support of the World Forum on Privacy, they too aren’t buying it and included their doubts in their recent report. As I have re…
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"fico-medication-adherence-scoring"
You know they are going to use these flawed medication adherence scores to determine who gets what with medications. This is horrifically flawed. Regulation won’t work and CMS should work towards getting lower drug prices instead of this model that comes ba…
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For the independent pharmacy, generic drug costs have gone up as high as 30 percent and the pharmacy cannot price match big chain drug stores as regulations do not permit that to happen. In reading this article further the pharmacy said they break even on …
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Ok, so now if you wait 2 days to pick up your prescription, your doctor is going to know. If you don’t pick it up at all, your doctor will know. With linking other information to paying for your prescription at CVS, you doctor may now know. Here we go ag…
Continue ReadingPatients Who Pay “Cash” When Filling Prescriptions Are Now Called “Outliers, Pharmacists Required to Fix Outliers as They Show Up As Non Medication Adherence Compliant With 5 Star Systems Full of Flawed Data… Do you not think these flawed scores will be used…
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If you read here often enough then you have seen the references and addition information relative to the World Privacy Forum and their report on “The Secret Scoring of America” while the rest of the world watches. This is right along the same lines here with…
Continue ReadingThis is just taking this a little too far and we know when you let Quants go wild, they will go, and go and go and quantitate and create spurious correlations and sell and market you on the fact they they have value and they do not. If you read around the we…
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One thing we all hate is the high prices we pay in the US today for our prescriptions. Sure we do get some discounts, but that too has become an effort in algorithmic shopping to click here and click there to get the best price. It shouldn’t have to be that…
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This kind of funny as the chief medical officer says he’s not real sure about it:) We we know what happened with that Master Card Steroid Marketing Plan , here’s one more that was sold and duped. What they are worried about here is the fact that they need t…
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The long and short of the OptumRX agreement is to allow patients to be able to pick up and fill a prescription in a retail store versus mail order. That in inself tells me that there’s folks who don’t care for mail order services? In addition, Walgreens wi…
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We knew their entire program was nothing but marketing from the start. The CVS store near me has replaced the tobacco section with lots of alcohol for sale behind the counter so what’s up with that? We have a big retail chain talking out of both sides of …
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Predictive analytics have been oversold in many areas. I’m not saying there’s not good use for looking for patterns and determining outcomes as there is but it is getting to the point to where anyone can create a model and claim “it works”. When the model…
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The folks at Data Dealer, the game have an updated video and I’ve included it below. Again we are right back to same problem that nobody wants to admit exists. The video and game were created to exploit and bring this to light. If you watch the video, it’s…
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