TV ADS – Drug Advertisements on TV - The FDA rolls out "bad ad program" to identify misleading pharmaceutical marketing claims

NATIONAL - The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently announced "it will begin asking doctors to keep an eye out for misleading drug advertisements as part of the agency's latest effort to police the pharmaceutical industry's multibillion-dollar marketing machine."

Specifically, the FDA's "'bad ad program ' urges doctors to report ads and sales pitches that violate FDA rules." And, "as part of its new program, FDA will offer doctors training at medical conferences to help spot misleading ads.

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WORKERS' COMP - Injured Workers' DRUG COSTS higher in Florida than other states

According to a new study by the Workers Compensation Research Institute (WCRI), the payment per claim for prescription drugs used to treat injured workers in Florida was nearly 40 percent higher than in most study states.  BUT WHY?

WCRI found that the average payment per claim for prescription drugs in Florida's workers' compensation system was $565—38 percent higher than the median of the study states. 

The main reason for the higher prescription costs in Florida was that some physicians wrote prescriptions and dispensed the prescribed medications directly to their patients. When physicians dispensed prescription drugs, they often were paid much more than pharmacies for the same prescription. 

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